Fullo

a cognomen of the Apustia Gens at Rome. [Apustia Gens.] It was probably derived from the occupation of one of the Apustii, a cleaner of woollen cloths.

1. L. Apustius Fullo, L. F. C. N., consul in B. C. 226. There prevailed at Rome in his consulship a panic of Gaulish invasion. The Sibylline books foretold that the Gauls and Greeks should possess the city. At once to fulfil and avert the prophecy, the pontiffs directed a Gaulish man and woman and a Greek man and woman to be buried alive in the ox-market at Rome. The whole of Fullo's consulship was employed in preparations for a Gaulish war and a general levy of the Italian people. (Plb. 2.22; Liv. Epit. xx., 22.17 ; Plut. Marc. 3; Oros. 4.13; Zonar. viii. p. 403. c.; Plin. II. H. N. 3.20.)

2. L. Apustius Fullo, son probably of the preceding. He was aedile of the plebs in B. C. 202, when the plebeian games in the Flaminian Circus were thrice repeated. Fullo was Praetor Urbanus in B. C. 196, and afterwards commissioner under a plebiscite of Q. Aelius Tubero, for establishing a Latin colony in the district of Thurii, B. C. 194. (Liv. 31.4, 33.24, 26, 34.53, 35.9.) [W.B.D]