country_of_citizenship quintus fabius maximus aemilianus
The ___MASK64___ ( Koine and Medieval Greek :    , tr . ) was the post - ___MASK56___ period of the ancient Roman civilization , characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe , Africa and Asia . The city of Rome was the largest city in the world BC AD , with Constantinople ( New Rome ) becoming the largest around 500 AD , and the Empire ' s populace grew to an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants ( roughly 20 % of the world ' s population at the time ). The 500 - year - old republic which preceded it was severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflict , during which Julius Caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in 44 BC . Civil wars and executions continued , culminating in the victory of Octavian , Caesar ' s adopted son , over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt . Octavian ' s power was then unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title " Augustus ", effectively marking the end of the ___MASK56___ . Consularis is a Latin adjective indicating something pertaining to the consular office . In ___MASK70___ it was a title given to those senators who held consular rank , i . e . who had served as consuls or who had received the rank as a special honour . In Late Antiquity , the title became also a gubernatorial rank for provincial governors . Consul ( abbrev . " cos ."; Latin plural " consules ") was the title of one of the chief magistrates of the ___MASK56___ , and subsequently a somewhat significant title under the Roman Empire . The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states , notably in the First French Republic . The relating adjective is consular , from the " consularis ". Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was a Roman statesman and consul ( 145 BC ) . Fabius was by adoption a member of the patrician gens Fabia , but by birth he was the eldest son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Papiria Masonis and the elder brother of Scipio Aemilianus . He was the father of Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus . Fabius served under his blood father in the Third Macedonian War and was sent by his father to Rome to announce the news of the Roman victory at Pydna . Fabius served as praetor in Sicily during 149 BC - 148 BC and was elected consul for 145 BC . After his consulship he went as proconsul to Hispania where he fought and defeated Viriathus in an episode of the Lusitanian War but failed to capture him and the war went on until the fall of Numantia by his brother a decade later . Fabius and his brother were the pupils and patrons of the historian Polybius , who recorded the strong fraternal bond between the brothers , even after their adoption into other houses . A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone ' s name in certain contexts . It may signify either veneration , an official position or a professional or ___MASK95___ qualification . In some languages , titles may be inserted before a last name ( for example , " Graf " in German , Cardinal in Catholic usage or clerical titles such as Archbishop ). Some titles are hereditary . The ___MASK56___ was the era of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom , traditionally dated to 509 BC , and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire . It was during this period that Rome ' s control expanded from the city ' s immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world .