A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

5. The wife of Fabius Maximus, the friend of Augustus, learnt from her husband the secret visit of the emperor to his grandson Agrippa, and informed Livia of it, in consequence of which she became the cause of her husband's death, A. D. 13 or 14. (Tac. Ann. 1.5.) We learn from Ovid (Ov. Fast. 6.802) that she belonged to the family of the Philippi. Her name also occurs in the epistle which Ovid addressed to her husband (Ex Pont. í. 2).