event
The Fabii at the Cremera
the three hundred
also: the three hundred Fabii
The 306 men of the gens Fabia who in 477 BC took the war against Veii upon their single house and were annihilated at the river Cremera; Seneca's 'three hundred who threw one house against the enemy' whose memory dignifies their descendants.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §4.30.2 those three hundred
The 306 Fabii who took the war against Veii on their single house and fell at the Cremera in 477 BC — the proverbial sacrifice of one family for the state.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.82.20 the Fabii
The gens Fabia, who in 479 BC took the war against Veii upon their single clan; 306 of them fell at the river Cremera. Seneca's example of a whole house dying for Rome.