previous next  Faba'tus, Calpu'rnius  a Roman knight, accused by
suborned informers in A. D. (4, of being privy to the crimes of
adultery and magical arts which were alleged against Lepida, the
wife of C. Cassius. By an appeal to Nero, judgment against
Fabatus was deferred, and he eventually eluded the accusation.
(Tac. Ann. 16.8.) Fabatus was grandfather to Calpurnia, wife of
the younger Pliny. (Plin. Ep. 8.10.) He possessed a country
house, Villa Camilliana, in Campania. (Id. 6.30.) He long
survived his son, Pliny's father-in-law, in memory of whom he
erected a portico at Comum, in Cisalpine Gaul. (5.12.) According
to an inscription (Gruter, Inscript. p. 382), Fabatus died at
Comum. The following letters tire addressed by Pliny to Fabatus,
his prosocer fiv. 1, 5.12, 6.12, 30, 7.11, 16, 23, 32, 8.10).
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