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MAXIMVS, a surname of the Fabia family.----The title of Maximus appears on Imperial coins, as ascribed to some few princes, not as a family name, but as an adjunct to the surnames of conquest. Thus we find Parthicus Maximus borne by Septimius Severus, who subdued the Parthians; Armeniacus Maximus is included in the style of Lucius Verus, for his successes, or rather for those of his colleague Marcus Aurelius, over the Armenians.----We read on the coins of Valerianus, Gallienus, and Postumus, Germanicus Maximus, a title which these princes assumed on account of victories gained by them respectively over the Germans.----Constantine the Great is called, on his coins, MAXIMVS, as a title of the greatest distinction.----The idea of Harduin, concurred in by Jobert, that Maximus was a name belonging to Constantine's family is clearly shown by Bimard, in every point of view, to be unsustainable.
MAXIMVS.----See GERMANICVS.
MAXIMVS.----See Petronius, on whose coins the circumscription of the head is PETRONIVS MAXIMVS.
MAXIMVS.----See Pupienus, whose coins bear PVPIENVS MAXIMVS. AVG.