Strabo, Fannius
1. C. Fannius Strabo, was consul B. C. 161 with M. Valerius Messalla. In their consulship the rhetoricians were expelled from Rome (Gel. 15.11; Suet. de Rhet. 1). Fannius also proposed a lex sumtuaria (Gel. 2.24; Macr. 2.13; Plin. Nat. 10.50. s. 71).
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