Career
Eburnus may have been a monetalis around 134 BC. He was most likely the Q. Fabius Maximus who was quaestor in 132, serving in Sicily under his father-in-law Publius Rupilius, who was a consul that year. Eburnus was held responsible for losing control of the city of Tauromenium to the slave uprising, and he was sent back to Rome "in disgrace" even though the Roman siege eventually succeeded. A considerable gap in his career followed.
He held the praetorship no later than 119 BC, when he may have been the Fabius Maximus who presided as praetor over the court in which Lucius Licinius Crassus prosecuted Gaius Papirius Carbo. The charge is unclear: extortion, perhaps under the Lex Acilia de repetundis, or laesa maiestas, an offense against the dignity of the state, have both been proposed. Carbo was convicted, and committed suicide.
Eburnus was elected consul for 116 with Gaius Licinius Geta. He seems to have been the proconsul of Macedonia recorded as sending a letter to the Dymaeans, and if the identification is correct, he would have served 115–114 BC. In 113, either he or Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus was the diplomatic legate send to Crete.
In 108, he was censor with his co-consul, though as with some of his other offices, Allobrogicus has also been proposed as the Q. Fabius Maximus who served. The censors of this year reappointed Marcus Aemilius Scaurus as princeps senatus.
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