Valerius Fabianus
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]
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Donne, William Bodham (1870). "Fabianus, Valerius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. p. 132.
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- 1st-century Romans
- Senators of the Roman Empire
- Valerii
- Ancient Roman people stubs