Gaius Fabius Agrippinus was a

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senator active in the mid-second century AD, who held a number of offices in the emperor's service. Agrippinus served as suffect consul for the ''

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'' October-December 148 with Marcus Antonius Zeno as his colleague. A remarkable commonality between Agrippinus and his colleague Zeno is that they were also consecutive governors of

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dates Zeno's tenure from around the year 140 to about 143, and Agrippinus' from 143 to about 146. The origins of Agrippinus lie in the port city of Ostia, where his family is known to have owned a house. Here a couple of fragmentary inscriptions have been found that offer the first steps of a ''

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'' that has been connected to Agrippinus, but Anthony Birley admits that these might apply to a homonymous descendant mentioned by

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who was governor of Syria in 218 or 219. The testimony of these stones are as follows. He began as one of the ''quattuorviri viarum curandarum'' which oversaw road maintenance within the city of Rome, one of the four boards that comprised the ''

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''. Serving as one of these minor magistracies was considered an important first step in a senator's career. Next was service as a

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with

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, which was stationed in

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at the time. Agrippinus is then documented as quaestor of the public province of

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, which qualified him to be a senator, which is followed by the magistracies of '' aedile cerialis'' then

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,Until the recovery of a second fragment, the relevant inscription had been restored to indicate that Agrippinus had been

plebeian tribune Tribune of the plebs, tribune of the people or plebeian tribune ( la, tribunus plebis) was the first office of the Roman state that was open to the plebeians, and was, throughout the history of the Republic, the most important check on the power o ...

, as shown in the scholarship. where our material ends. Nothing further is known of Agrippinus after his consulate.

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