Quintus Fabius Labeo

Quintus Fabius Labeo was a Roman politician in the second century BC.

Career[edit]

In 196 BC, Labeo served as quaestor. In 189/188 he served as praetor and as propraetor commander of the fleet.^[1] He first went to war against Antiochus III and destroyed 50 ships of the enemy.^[2]^[3] He celebrated a triumph at the shipyard. In the year 184 BC, Labeo was put in command of the colonies of Pisa and Potentia.^[3] In 183 BC, he was elected consul together with Marcus Claudius Marcellus as his colleague.^[4] The consuls were dispatched to Liguria, where they fought off invading Gauls.^[5] In the year 180, he served as pontiff.

References[edit]

^ Friedrich Münzer, Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. VI, pp. 1773–1775
^ Titus Livius, XXXIII, 42,2
^ ^a ^b Polybius, The Histories, XXI, 46,3
^ Fasti Capitolini
^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, 81

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[:0-1] Friedrich Münzer, Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. VI, pp. 1773–1775

[:1-2] Titus Livius, XXXIII, 42,2

[:2-3] Polybius, The Histories, XXI, 46,3

[:3-4] Fasti Capitolini

[:4-5] Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, 81

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