2. Ser.SulpiciusPraetextatus, four times consular tribune, namely in B. C. 377, 376, 370, 368. He married the elder daughter of M. Fabius Ambustus; and it is said that the younger daughter of Fabius, who was married to Licinius Stolo, urged on her husband to procure the consulship for
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the plebeians, as she was jealous of the honours of her sister's husband. Niebuhr has pointed out the worthlessness and contradictions in this tale. (Liv. 6.32_34, 36, 38; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. pp. 2, 3.)