Fannii Strabones • Gaius Fannius Strabo, grandfather of the consul of BC 161. • Gaius Fannius C. f. Strabo, father of the consul of BC 161. • Gaius Fannius C. f. C. n. Strabo,
consul in BC 161, the year that
rhetoricians were expelled from Rome. Fannius proposed a
sumptuary law. • Marcus Fannius (C. f. C. n.) Strabo, father of the historian. •
Gaius Fannius M. f. C. n. Strabo, consul in BC 122. He had been
tribune of the plebs, and was elected consul through the influence of
Gaius Gracchus, but once in office, he supported the aristocracy and obstructed the measures of Gracchus. He issued a proclamation commanding all of the
Italian allies to leave Rome, and spoke against Gracchus' proposal to extend the
franchise to the
Latins. Fannius' speech was regarded as a masterpiece in
Cicero's time. •
Gaius Fannius C. f. C. n. Strabo, had been, in his youth, a soldier under
Scipio Aemilianus, and together with
Tiberius Gracchus, was the first to mount the walls of
Carthage on the capture of the city. He became an orator, whose style was harsher than that of his cousin, the consul of 122 BC, but gained fame as the author of a history of contemporary events, which was praised by
Sallust.
Others • Gaius Fannius,
tribune of the people in BC 187. He asserted that neither he nor his colleagues (with the exception of
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus) would hinder the
praetor Quintus Terentius Culleo from arresting and imprisoning
Scipio Asiaticus, if he refused to pay a fine to which he had been sentenced. •
Fannia, the wife of Gaius Titinius, who married her in order to gain control of her considerable property.
Gaius Marius interceded on her behalf when Titinius repudiated her but attempted to rob her of her dowry, and in gratitude Fannia provided shelter for Marius when he came to
Minturnae as a fugitive in 88 BC. • Gaius Fannius, an
eques, who was called a
frater germanus of Titinius, and had some transactions with
Gaius Verres in BC 84. • Marcus Fannius, one of the judices in the case of Sextus Roscius of
Ameria, in BC 80. •
Lucius Fannius, served with Lucius Magius in the army of the
legate Gaius Flavius Fimbria, in the
war against Mithridates, in BC 84. They deserted and went over to
Mithridates, under whom they served for many years. They were declared public enemies by the
senate. • Gaius Fannius Chaereas or Chaerea, a
freedman of Greek extraction, whose slave was entrusted to the actor
Quintus Roscius Gallus for training in his art. After the slave was murdered, Roscius obtained a farm in compensation, and Chaereas sued him for his share of the property. Roscius was defended by Cicero, who savaged Chaereas' character and appearance. • Gaius Fannius, one of the accusers of
Publius Clodius Pulcher in BC 61. Two years later, he was mentioned by Lucius Vettius as an accomplice in an alleged conspiracy against
Pompeius. He may be the same Fannius who went over to
Sextus Pompeius in 43, and was outlawed. In 36, he deserted Pompeius and went over to
Marcus Antonius. • Gaius Fannius, tribune of the people in BC 59, when he allowed himself to be used by
Marcus Bibulus in opposing
Caesar's agrarian law. A partisan of Pompeius, he went as praetor to
Sicily in 49. The fall of Pompeius in the year after seems to have brought about the fall of Fannius also. • Fannius, one of the commanders under
Gaius Cassius Longinus in BC 42. • Fannius Quadratus, a contemporary of
Horace, who speaks of him with contempt as a parasite of Tigellius Hermogenes. He was one of those envious Roman poets who tried to depreciate Horatius, because his writings threw their own into the shade. • Fannius Caepio, conspired with
Murena against
Augustus in BC 22. He was accused of
majestas by
Tiberius, and condemned by the judges in his absence, as he did not stand his trial, and was shortly afterwards put to death. •
Fannia, the second wife of
Helvidius Priscus, accompanied her husband into exile during the reign of
Nero, and again under
Vespasian. After her husband's death, she persuaded
Herennius Senecio to write his biography, but following its publication, Herennius was put to death by
Domitian, and Fannia sent into exile. •
Publius Fannius Synistor, owner of the
Villa Boscoreale, which was buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. • Gaius Fannius, a contemporary of the younger
Plinius, and the author of a work on the deaths of persons executed or exiled by Nero, under the title of
Exitus Occisorum aut Relegatorum. It consisted of three books, but more would have been added if Fannius had lived longer. The work seems to have been very popular at the time, both on account of its style and its subject. ==See also==