Valerius Fabianus

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Valerius Fabianus was an ancient Roman senator of the 1st century AD.

Although a man "marked out for a career of promotion", according to Tacitus, he was tried before the Senate in the year 62. The Senate found him guilty for conspiring with , Marcus Antonius Primus, and others, to impose on his aged and wealthy relative, , a forged will. Fabianus was removed from the senatorian order by the Lex Cornelia Testamentaria or De Falsis.[1]

References[]

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainDonne, William Bodham (1870). "Fabianus, Valerius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. p. 132.

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Tacitus, Annales xiv.40; compare Institutes iv. 18. § 7; Paulus, Recept. Sententiarum v. tit. 25.
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