Valerius Fabianus was an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

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 senator

Roman Senate

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 of the 1st century AD.

Although a man "marked out for a career of promotion", according to Tacitus

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...

, he was tried before the Senate in the year 62. The Senate found him guilty for conspiring with Vincius Rufinus, Antonius Primus, and others, to impose on his aged and wealthy relative, Domitius Balbus, a forged will. Fabianus was removed from the senatorian order by the Lex Cornelia Testamentaria or De Falsis.