Fabricius
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman statesman renowned for incorruptibility, who refused King Pyrrhus's gold and warned him against a poisoning plot.
Fabricius rejected the gold of King Pyrrhus, and judged it greater than a kingdom to be able to despise a king's wealth.
and now Curius is to them not severe enough, Fabricius not poor enough, Tubero not frugal enough nor content with cheap things;
Fabricius rejected riches when he was general, condemned them when he was censor.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman statesman from the war with Pyrrhus, cited as favored by divine help
and many other singular men besides, both our state and Greece has borne, of whom we must believe that none was such save by the help of god.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman listed among exemplars of lasting fame.
But far more slowly will fame forsake Curius, Fabricius, Calatinus, the two Scipios, the two Africani, Maximus, Marcellus, Paulus, Cato, Laelius, and others past number;
On Providence
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, Roman general and consul who fought Pyrrhus and lived in voluntary poverty, cited as an exemplar of contentment despite hardship.
Is Fabricius unhappy because, whenever he has leisure from the commonwealth, he digs his own field?
she tries fire upon Mucius, poverty upon Fabricius, exile upon Rutilius, torture upon Regulus, poison upon Socrates, death upon Cato.
Law in a Free State
Ancient Roman statesman proverbial for incorruptible virtue, invoked as an example of a man whose devotion to duty cannot be shaken.
But just as we can influence the actions of a man by appeals to his understanding, so that it may be fairly said of such an one “he cannot lie,” and of another that it is easier to turn the sun from its course than Fabricius from the path of duty: