A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

1. C.FanniusStrabo, 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).