Son of the Consul for the year 564, and great grandson of the illustrious Servius Fulvius Pætinus Nobilior, the companion of Regulus; Pætinus was consul in the year 498. Marcus Fulvius obtained the consulate eight years after his Ædilate: the name of his colleague was Cneus Cornelius Dolabella. It is probable that this branch of the Fulvian family assumed the agnomen of _Nobilior_, to distinguish themselves as _nobiles_ from the rest of the Fulvii, who might not have had any claim to that title. None but those, and the posterity of those, who had borne some curule office, (_vide note 48_) were _nobiles_, or nobles. The _nobiles_ possessed the exclusive right of making statues of themselves; which were carefully preserved by their posterity, and usually carried in procession on solemn occasions: they painted the faces of these images “Quid prodest, Pontice, longo Sanguine censeri, pictosque ostendere vultus Majorum.” _What avails it to be thought, Of ancient blood? and to expose to view, The painted features of dead ancestors?_ JUVENAL. NOTE 50. _Marcus Glabrio._ This person was doubtless distinguished by another appellation which is not set down in the title to this play: under the name of Glabrio, there is no account of him extant. As Glabrio does not appear to have been the name of any _Gens_, or family in Rome, it was probably the _Agnomen_ of Marcus only, and not common to his kindred. NOTE 51. _By the company of Lucius Ambivius Turpio, and Lucius Attilius._