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Gaius Fabricius Luscinus
Fabricius
also: Fabricius
Roman commander and censor of the early 3rd c. BC, a proverbial model of incorruptible poverty who refused the gold of Pyrrhus and the Samnites and branded luxury as censor.
Reading notes
- On Providence §3.4 Fabricius
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul and exemplar of old Roman frugality and incorruptibility in the war against Pyrrhus; famed for refusing the king's bribes and tilling his own small farm.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §16.98.13 Fabricius
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, commander and censor of the early 3rd c. BC, a proverb for incorruptible poverty: he spurned the bribes of Pyrrhus and branded luxury as censor.