Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Fabius Maximus

Family: Roman · Role: companion of Augustus · First appears: Annals I (2)

Life events

  • Fabius Maximus died, possibly by suicide through fear.(Annals I (2))
    • “that Maximus being soon after dead (dead, as it was doubted, through fear, by his own hands)”

Annals I (2)

  • friends with Augustus (Companionship supports a friendship relation.) “Augustus having singled out a few of his most faithful servants, and taken Fabius Maximus for his only companion,”
  • married with Martia (Martia is identified as Maximus's wife.) “Maximus being soon after dead (dead, as it was doubted, through fear, by his own hands), Martia was observed, in her lamentations and groans at his funeral, to accuse herself as the sad cause of her husband's destruction.”

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