Fabianus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Our friend Fabianus
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Figure who blushed when testifying before the Senate, admired by Seneca for his modesty
Fabianus, when he was brought in as a witness before the Senate, blushed, I remember, and this modesty wonderfully became him.
Fabianus, an excellent man both in life and in learning and—what comes after these—in eloquence too, used to discourse fluently rather than headlong, so that you might call it ease, not speed.
Fabianus used to discourse before the people, but he was listened to with restraint.
Consolation to Marcia
A source, likely the philosopher Papirius Fabianus, credited with reporting the anecdote of the prematurely tall boy who died young.
Fabianus tells—a thing which our own parents too saw—that there was at Rome a boy of the stature of a tall man;
On the Shortness of Life
A philosopher described as 'one of the true and ancient kind,' quoted twice by Seneca approvingly on fighting the passions and on the uselessness of trivial learning.
Our friend Fabianus used to say that he sometimes doubted whether it were not better to be attached to no studies at all than to be entangled in these.
Fabianus used to say—not one of those professorial philosophers, but one of the true and ancient kind—“Against the passions we must fight with main force, not with subtlety;