Fabii
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the Fabii · the Fabians
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Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
I give you the Fabii, transferring to a single house the whole war of the commonwealth.
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The Rights of War and Peace
Roman family whose members were demanded for surrender by the Gauls.
—In the same manner the Gauls made a demand that the Fabii should be surrendered for having fought against them.
The Gauls therefore might have put to death the Fabii, whom Livy calls violators of the law of nature.
Letters to Lucilius
A Roman patrician family (the Fabii), cited as an example of collective self-sacrifice in war.
I give you the Fabii, transferring to a single house the whole war of the commonwealth.