Gaius Fabricius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Fabricius
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Stoic Paradoxes
Roman statesman and general renowned for incorruptibility, famous for refusing King Pyrrhus's gold.
What did the self-restraint of Gaius Fabricius, what did the frugal fare of Manius Curius, have in view?
If we are to assess and value property, which, pray, shall we value the more highly — the money of Pyrrhus, which he was offering to Fabricius, or the self-restraint of Fabricius, who refused that money?
Let those scoffers at this discourse and this opinion come forward, then, and let them now judge for themselves whether they would rather be like one of these men who abound in marble halls gleaming with ivory and gold, in statues, in paintings, in chased gold and silver, in Corinthian works — or like Gaius Fabricius, who had none of these things and wished to have none.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman known for incorruptibility and simple living, cited as an example of tolerating poverty.
\" For since the force of poverty is one and the same, what can be said as to why it was tolerable to Gaius Fabricius, while others deny they can bear it?