[1] The rhetorical style of Fabianus is described by Seneca the Elder,[1] and he is frequently cited in the third book of Controversiae as well as in the Suasoriae.
His early model in rhetoric was his instructor Arellius Fuscus; but he afterwards adopted a less ornate form of eloquence.
Fabianus soon, however, abandoned rhetoric in favor of philosophy; and Seneca the Younger places his philosophical works next to those of Cicero, Asinius Pollio, and Livy the historian.
[4] He had also paid great attention to physical science, and is called by Pliny the Elder rerum naturae peritissimus,[5] "very experienced in matters of nature."
27), he appears to have written on physics; and his works entitled De Animalibus and Causarum Naturalium Libri are frequently referred to by Pliny.