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Fabricia Gens, seems to have belonged originally to the Hernican town of Aletrium, where Fabricii
occur as late as the time of Cicero (pro Cluent. 16, &c.). The first Fabricius
who occurs in history is the celebrated C. Fabricius Luscinus, who distinguished
himself in the war against Pyrrhus, and who was probably the first of the Fabricii
who quitted his native place and settled at Rome. We know that in B. C. 306, shortly
before the war with Pyrrhus, most of the Hernican towns revolted against Rome,
but were subdued and compelled to accept the Roman franchise without the suffrage:
three towns, Aletrium, Ferentinum, and Verulae, which had remained faithful to
Rome, were allowed to retain their former constitution; that is, they remained
to Rome in the relation of isopolity (Liv. ix. 42, &c.). Now it is very probable
that C. Fabricius Luscinus either at that time or soon after left Aletrium and
settled at Rome, where, like other settlers from isopolite towns, he soon rose
to high honours. Besides this Fabricius, no members of his family appear to have
risen to any eminence at Rome; and we must conclude that they were either men
of inferior talent, or, what is more probable, that being strangers, they laboured
under great disadvantages, and that the jealousy of the illustrious Roman families,
plebeian as well as patrician, kept them down, and prevented their maintaining
the position which their sire had gained. Luscinus is the only cognomen of the
Fabricii that we meet with under the republic: in the time of the empire we find
a Fabricius with the cognomen Veiento. There are a few without a cognomen.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Fabricius, C. & L., belonged to the municipium of Aletrium, and were twins. According to Cicero (pro Cluent. 16, &c.), they were both men of bad character; and C. Fabricius, in particular, was charged with having allowed himself to be made use of as a tool of Oppianicus, about B. C. 67, to destroy A. Cluentius.
L. Fabricius, C. F., perhaps a son of C. Fabricius Luscinus, was eurator viarum
in B. C. 62, and built a new bridge of stone, which connected the city with the
island in the Tiber, and which was called, after him, pons Fabricius. The time
at which the bridge was built is expressly mentioned by Dion Cassius (xxxvii.
45), and the name of its author is still seen on the remnants of the bridge, which
now bears the name of ponte quattro capi. On one of the arches we read the inscription:
"L. FABRICIUS, C. F. CUR. VIAR. FACIUNDUM COERAVIT IDEMQUE PROBAVIT "; and on
another arch there is the following addition: "Q. LEPIDUS, M. F., M.LOLLIU, M.
F., EX S. C. PROBAVERUNT", which probably refers to a restoration of the bridge
by Q. Lepidus and M. Lollius. The scholiast on Horace (Sat. ii. 3, 36) calls the
Fabricius who built that bridge a consul, but this is obviously a mistake. There
is also a coin bearing the name of L. Fabricius.
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