Fabii

Fabii at Rome are truly great and honourable, and her

Exilius 2008

Seek out some one rough and unpolished as the Curii and Fabii, and savage in his uncouth rudeness; you will find one, but even this puritanical crew has its catamites.

Satyricon 2007

The senate being met at Rome, among many others that spoke against the Fabii, the priests called fecials were the most decided, who, on the religious ground, urged the senate that they should lay the whole guilt and penalty of the fact upon him that committed it, and so exonerate the rest.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Religion, punished the Fabii who had fought against the law of nations, and then esteemed highly the virtu and goodness of

Discourses 2003

The sally being made, and the fight growing hot about the walls, one of the Fabii, Quintus Ambustus, being well mounted, and setting spurs to his horse, made full against a Gaul, a man of huge bulk and stature, whom he saw riding out at a distance from the rest.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

There were sent three of the family of the Fabii, persons of high rank and distinction in the city.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

That which indignation makes men do, is easily recognized as that which happened to the Romans when they sent the three Fabii as ambassadors to the Gauls who had come to assault Tuscany, and

Discourses 2003

Thus in the same way they not only did not deprive the Fabii [of their rank], who, contrary to the law of nations, had fought against the Gauls, but created them Tribunes.

Discourses 2003

T. Livius relates it at length and in the most effective language, saying that Heaven, wanting some means to have the Romans know its power, first made those Fabii err who had gone as ambassadors to the Gauls, and through whose deeds excited them to make war against

Discourses 2003

Senate through their Ambassadors of this injury, and asked that in satisfaction for the harm done that the three above-mentioned Fabii should be turned over to them; not only were they not delivered to them or in any way castigated, but when the Comitii assembled, they were made Tribunes with consular powers.

Discourses 2003