Nobilior
The name of a distinguished family of the Fulvia gens. The most distinguished member of the
family was M. Fulvius Nobilior, consul B.C. 189, when he conquered the Aetolians, and took the
town of Ambracia. He had a taste for literature and art, and was a patron of the poet Ennius,
who accompanied him in his Aetolian campaign (
Cic.
Tusc. i. 2).