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Lucius Fabius Cilo


Lucius Fabius Cilo, full name Lucius Fabius Cilo Septiminus Catinius Acilianus Lepidus Fulcinianus, was a Roman senator of the second century. He was born in Hispania, around 150 AD.

It was between 180 and 184 he became the Legate for the XVI Flavia Firma and military Prefect (approx. 187-189). Around 185 he became Pro consul of the Roman Province of Gallia Narbonensis and afterwards Legate of III Gallica, about 189 to 192.

Cilo was made consul suffectus in 193. In this role, he provided for the tumulation of the body of Commodus in the Mausoleum of Hadrian, by order of Pertinax (Historia Augusta, "Commodus", xvii 4). The following year, during the rule of Septimius Severus, his intimate friend, Cilo fought against the usurper Pescennius Niger near Perinthus.

Nominated urban prefect for the year 203, he saved the life of procurator and later emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus when his patron Gaius Fulvius Plautianus fell into disgrace (Cassius Dio, Roman History, lxxix). The next year he was nominated consul for the second time.

Cilo served also under Caracalla. When the emperor decided to kill his own brother and co-ruler Geta and Papinian, Cilo, who had counselled harmony between the brothers, was seized by the urbaniciani, and only after the soldiers had torn off his senator's robe and pulled off his boots, Caracalla stopped them. According to Cassius Dio:


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