Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consular tribune 381 BC)

Marcus Fabius Ambustus was an ancient Roman politician who was the son of Caeso Fabius Ambustus.^[1] He was consular tribune in 381 BC.^[2] He had two daughters, of whom the elder was married to Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, and the younger to Gaius Licinius Stolo, one of the authors of the Lex Licinia Sextia. According to the story recorded by Livy, the younger Fabia induced her father to assist her husband in obtaining the consulship for the plebeian order, into which she had married.^[3] Ambustus was consular tribune a second time in 369, and took an active part in support of the Lex Licinia Sextia.^[4] He was censor in 363.^[5]

References

1. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Ambustus (6)". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 141. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0150.html. 
2. ^ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita vi. 22
3. ^ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita vi. 34
4. ^ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita vi. 36
5. ^ Fast. Capitol.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).