C. Hadrianus Fabius
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C. Hadrianus Fabius was legate, praetor, or propraetor in the Ancient Roman province of Africa, about 87—84 BC. Orosius (v. 20) gives Hadrianus the nomen Fulvius.
Hadrianus' government was so oppressive to the Roman colonists and merchants at Utica that they burnt him to death in his own praetorium. Notwithstanding the outrage to a Roman magistrate, no proceedings were taken at Rome against the perpetrators of it. For besides his oppressions, Hadrianus was suspected of secretly instigating the slaves at Utica to revolt, and of aspiring with their aid, to make himself independent of the Roman Republic, at that time fluctuating between the parties of Cinna and Sulla.[1]
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
- ^ Cic. in Verr. i. 27, v. .3.6 ; Pseud. Ascon. in Verr. p. 179, Orelli; Diod./K vat. p. 138, ed. Dind.; Liv. Epit. 86; Val. Max. ix. 10. § 2. (cited by Smith)
