Fabius-maximus
(Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus”Cunctator”) 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal’s army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
Historical Examples
Selections from Viri Romae Charles Franois L’Homond
The Lion’s Brood Duffield Osborne
Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I (of 4) Plutarch
Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I (of 4) Plutarch
Dio’s Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) Cassius Dio
A Smaller History of Rome William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Edited by Rev. James Wood
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Tobias Smollett
The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six Titus Livius
A Smaller History of Rome William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
noun
full name Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, called Cunctator (the delayer). died 203 bc, Roman general and statesman. As commander of the Roman army during the Second Punic War, he withstood Hannibal by his strategy of harassing the Carthaginians while avoiding a pitched battle
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