person
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus
Fabricius
also: C. Fabricium, Gaius Fabricius
Consul of 282 and 278 BC, a byword for old Roman incorruptibility, sent as envoy to Pyrrhus to recover Roman prisoners. Cicero (Brutus 55) infers from that embassy that he was a fluent speaker.
Reading notes
- On Duties §1.40 Gaius Fabricius
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul and censor of the early third century BC, the proverbial incorruptible Roman. He and the Senate returned to Pyrrhus the deserter who had offered to poison the king, refusing to win even against a dangerous enemy by a crime.
- On Duties §3.86 Gaius Fabricius
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul during the war with Pyrrhus, proverbial for incorruptible integrity. Cicero compares him to Aristides of Athens as one who never severed advantage from honour.
- Stoic Paradoxes §48 the money of Pyrrhus, which he offered to Fabricius
The incorruptibility of C. Fabricius Luscinus, who refused the bribes of King Pyrrhus, paired with M'. Curius's refusal of Samnite gold; Cicero values such virtue above any sum, as the substance of the sixth paradox.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.56 it was bearable to Gaius Fabricius
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus (cos. 282, 278 BC), the Roman general proverbial for incorruptible poverty who rejected the bribes of Pyrrhus. He is the standing Roman example that poverty can be borne nobly.