person
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
M. Fulvius Nobilior
also: M. F., Marci filius, Marcus Nobilior
Consul of 189 BC who took Ennius with him on his Aetolian campaign and was a patron of letters. Cited by Cicero (Brutus 79) as the father of Q. Fulvius Nobilior and the patron under whom Ennius served in Aetolia.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.3 he had taken poets with him into his province
M. Fulvius Nobilior, consul 189 BC, took Ennius on campaign to Aetolia; Cato attacked this in a speech as unbecoming. The episode illustrates the low social standing of poets at Rome in the early second century.