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FABRICIUS, See also:GAIUS LUSCINUS (i.e. " the one-eyed ") , See also:Roman See also:general, was the first member of the Fabrician gens who settled in See also:Rome. He migrated to Rome from See also:Aletrium (See also:Livy ix. 43), one of the Hernican towns which was allowed to retain its See also:independence as a See also:reward for not having revolted. In 285 he was one of the ambassadors sent to the Tarentines to dissuade them from making See also:war on the See also:Romans. In 282 (when See also:consul) he defeated the Bruttians and Lucanians, who had besieged See also:Thurii (Livy, Epit. 12). After the defeat of the Romans by See also:Pyrrhus at See also:Heraclea (280), Fabricitfs was sent to treat for the See also:ransom and See also:exchange of the prisoners. All attempts to bribe him were unsuccessful, and Pyrrhus is said to have been so impressed that he released the prisoners without ransom (See also:Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 18). The See also:story that Pyrrhus attempted to frighten Fabricius by the sight of an See also:elephant is probably a fiction. In 278 Fabricius was elected consul for the second See also:time, and was successful in negotiating terms of See also:peace with Pyrrhus, who sailed aw ay to See also:Sicily. Fabricius afterwards gained a See also:series of victories over the See also:Samnites, the Lucanians and the Bruttians, and on his return to Rome received the See also:honour of a See also:triumph.

Notwithstanding the offices he had filled he died poor, and See also:

pro-See also:vision had to be made for his daughter out of the funds of the See also:state (Val. Max. iv. 4, To). Fabricius was regarded by the Romans of later times as a See also:model of See also:ancient simplicity and incorruptible integrity.

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