Ancient Silver Denari of Fabius Labeo (124 B.C)

This silver Denari was minted during the reign of Quintus...Fabius Labeo: Q Fabius Labeo Denarius. 124 BC. LABEO before, ROMA behind, helmeted head of Roma right, X below chin on obverse / Jupiter in quadriga on reverse, prow below; Q FABI A brief review of the life of the Roman Consul during the days of the Roman Republic: Quintus Fabius Labeo had a father and grandfather of the same name. His career began in 196 v. Chr. With the urban bursary . 189 BC He became praetor and was to command the fleet anchored off Ephesus , but even before his arrival the war of the Romans against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III. come to an end. Then Fabius Labeo turned as fleet commander against the island of Crete , as the cities of Gortyn and Knossos imprisoned many Romans, whose release he demanded; but this condition fulfilled only the former city. Now the praetor returned to Ephesus, from there with three ships to the coast of Thrace, and renewed the freedom of the cities - previously occupied by the Seleucid king - Ainos and Maroneia , which he also protected from attacks by the Macedonian king Philip V. After the Antiochos III. Among other things, he had to hand over his war fleet to the Romans in painful peace conditions. The destruction of these stored at Patara in Lycia ships took over in 188 BC. Chr. Fabius Labeo. After the capture of Telmessos he sailed through the Aegean Sea , where he worshiped the god Apollo on Delos with a gift, and on via Athens to Italy. All in all, he had acquired no major military laurels, but he was allowed, although the tribunes raised objection to the Nonen of February 188 BC. Celebrate a Seetriumph. Several times Fabius Labeo applied in vain for the highest state office; so he came z. B. 184 BC Chr. Not to the train, because the consul of the year 185 v. Chr. Appius Claudius Pulcher , the election of his brother Publius to the consul for the following year prevailed. After all, Fabius Labeo belonged in 184 BC. to the Dreimannerkollegium, which founded the Roman citizen colonies Potentia and Pisaurum (today Pesaro ). Finally he was in 183 BC. together with Marcus Claudius Marcellus Consul. In his province of Liguria , which he dominated in his consulate as governor, he fought rather unsuccessfully, as well as proconsul in 182 BC. Chr. 180 BC Taken in the College of Pontifices in 12 BC Fabius Labeo lived in 167 BC. Chr., Because the extant surviving to this year received books of Livy his death. He most likely belonged to the commission of ten men, who then took over with Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus after the Roman victory over the last Macedonian king Perseus, the reorganization of his empire. In a year that could not be determined more precisely, Fabius Labeo was to settle a border dispute between the cities of Naples and Nola , cleverly stating advantages for the Romans. Even as a poet, he operated. It is unclear whether Quintus Fabius Labeo can be identified with the speaker or lawyer Quintus Fabius Labeo mentioned by Cicero ....