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Caeso Fabius Ambustus was a four-time consular tribune of the Roman Republic around the turn of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Caeso was quaestor in 409 BC, the first year the office was opened to the ''plebs'', and three of his colleagues were plebeians.〔Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' iv. 54〕 Caeso was consular tribune for the first time in 404,〔Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' iv. 61〕〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' xiv. 19. 1〕 again in 401,〔Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' v. 10〕〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' xiv. 44. 1〕 a third time in 395,〔Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' v. 24〕〔Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'' xiv. 94. 1〕 and a fourth time in 390. Caeso was the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus, the Pontifex Maximus, and brother to Numerius and Quintus. With his two brothers, Caeso was sent as ambassador to the Gauls, when the latter were besieging Clusium, and participated in an attack against the besieging Gauls. The Gauls demanded that the three should be surrendered to them for violating the law of nations; and when the Roman Senate refused to give up the guilty parties, the Gauls marched against Rome, which they sacked after the battle of the Allia.〔Livy, ''Ab Urbe Condita'' v. 35, 36, 41〕〔Plut. ''Cam.'' 17〕 Many scholars believe the entire story of the events at Clusium to be fiction, as Clusium had no real reason to appeal to Rome for help, and the Gauls needed no real provocation to sack Rome. The story, it is hypothesized, exists to provide an explanation for an otherwise unmotivated attack on Rome, and to depict Rome as a bulwark of Italy against the Gauls. He was the father of Marcus Fabius Ambustus. ==See also== * Ambustus, for other men with the same ''cognomen'' * Fabius Ambustus, for other men who used the same combination of ''gens'' name and ''cognomen'' * Fabia (gens), for a comprehensive list of ''gens'' members 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caeso Fabius Ambustus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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