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Roman general
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
was a Roman general.
He started his political career as
curule aedile
in 195 BC. When he was
praetor
(193 BC) he served with distinction in
Spain
, and as consul in 189 BC he completely broke the power of the
Aetolian League
. On his return to
Rome
, Nobilior celebrated a triumph (of which full details are given by
Livy
) remarkable for the magnificence of the spoils exhibited. On his Aetolian campaign he was accompanied by the poet
Ennius
, who made the capture of
Ambracia
, at which he was present, the subject of one of his plays. For this Nobilior was strongly opposed by
Cato the Censor
, on the ground that he had compromised his dignity as a Roman general. In 179 BC he was appointed
censor
together with
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
.
He restored the temple of
Hercules and the Muses
in the
Circus Flaminius
, placed in it a list of
Fasti
drawn up by himself,
[1]
and endeavoured to make the
Roman calendar
more generally known.
[2]
[3]
He was a great enthusiast for Greek art and culture, and introduced many of its masterpieces into Rome, amongst them the picture of the Muses by
Zeuxis
from Ambracia.
Fulvius was the grandson of
Servius Fulvius Paetinus Nobilior
(consul in 255 BC). He was named for his father. He had two sons, both of whom obtained the consulship:
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
(in 159 BC) and
Quintus Fulvius Nobilior
(in 153 BC).
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911). "
Nobilior, Marcus Fulvius
".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 724.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Smith, William
, ed. (1870). "Nobilior (2)".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
. Vol. 2. p. 1206.
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