Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (died 480 BC) was an aristocrat of the Early

Roman republic The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Ki ...

. He was the first of three brothers to hold the

consulate A consulate is the office of a consul. A type of diplomatic mission, it is usually subordinate to the state's main representation in the capital of that foreign country (host state), usually an embassy (or, only between two Commonwealth c ...

, in both 485 and 482 BC.

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

, '' Ab urbe condita'', 2.42 For a seven-year period from 485 to 478 BC, one of the two consuls was a member of the

gens Fabia In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (plural: ''stirpes''). The ''gen ...

, a domination of the office Gary Forsythe describes as "unparalleled in the consular ''fasti'' of the Roman Republic." His brothers were Kaeso (consul in 484, 481, and 479 BC) and Marcus (consul in 483 and 480 BC). During his first consulship, Quintus defeated the

Volsci The Volsci (, , ) were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the ...

and

Aequi 300px, Location of the Aequi (Equi) in central Italy, 5th century BC. The Aequi ( grc, Αἴκουοι and Αἴκοι) were an Italic tribe on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains to the east of Latium in central Italy who appear in the early hist ...

in battle, but incurred the anger of the plebs by lodging the spoils of victory with the '' publicum''. In his second consulship there were further hostilities with each of the Volsci and Aequi. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintus was killed in battle fighting against the Etruscans.Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Roman Antiquities'', 9.11

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fabius Vibulanus, Quintus 5th-century BC Roman consuls Vibulanus, Quintus 480 BC deaths Year of birth unknown