MARCUS FULVIUS

See also:

• MARCUS FULVIUS NOBILIOR

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