Calpurnius Fabatus

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Calpurnius Fabatus was an

Calpurnia
.

He was grandfather to Calpurnia, wife of the

Comum, in Cisalpine Gaul.[4]

In AD 64, he was accused by suborned informers of being privy to the crimes of adultery and magic which were alleged against Junia Lepida, the wife of Gaius Cassius Longinus. By an appeal to Nero, judgment against Fabatus was deferred, and he eventually eluded the accusation.[5]

According to an inscription,

Comum
.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Donne, William Bodham (1870). "Fabatus, Calpurnius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 130.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pliny, Epistulae viii. 10.
  2. ^ Epistulae iv. 1,v. 11, vi. 12, 30, vii. 11, 16, 23, 32, viii. 10
  3. ^ Epistulae vi. 30.
  4. ^ Epistulae v. 11.
  5. ^ Tacitus, Annals xvi. 8.
  6. ^ Grater, Inscript. p. 382
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