Few citizens had risen through the ranks of the empire as quickly as Fabius. Being named Legatus Augustus of the province of Dacia at the age of 31, he found himself leading one of the largest armies in history to retake Greece from a force of rebels. Once he successfully defeated the main rebel army in 534, he was recalled to Rome to be named Dacian Consul as a reward for his services to the empire. The Senate and Caesar had denied him his Triumph, on the grounds that it would insult the Greeks, but in return he would be named the youngest Consul since Pompeius Magnus (although consulship was very different then). Fabius proved to be an able consul and the people of Rome were still sore that he had not returned for a Triumph so when the equally beloved Caesar Ulpius was assassinated witho