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See also:MARCUS FULVIUS See also:NOBILIOR , See also:Roman See also:general, a member of one of the most important families of the plebeian Fulvian gens . When See also:praetor (193 B.C.) he served with distinction in See also:Spain, and as See also:consul in 1Sg he completely See also:broke the See also:power of the Aetolian See also:league . On his return to See also:Rome, See also:Nobilior celebrated a See also:triumph (of which full details are given by See also:Livy) remarkable for the magnificence of the spoils exhibited . On his Aetolian See also:campaign he was accompanied by the poet See also:Ennius, who made the See also:capture of See also:Ambracia, at which he was See also:present, the. subject of one of his plays . For this Nobilior was bitterly attacked by See also:Cato the See also:Censor, on the ground that he had compromised his dignity as a Roman general . He restored the See also:temple of See also:Hercules and the See also:Muses in the See also:Circus See also:Flaminius, placed in it a See also:list of See also:Fasti See also:drawn up by himself, and endeavoured to make the Roman See also:calendar more generally known . He was a See also:great enthusiast for See also:Greek See also:art and culture, and introduced many of its masterpieces into Rome, amongst them the picture of the Muses by Zeuxis from Ambracia . |
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