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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus held the consulship five times between 233 and 209 BC, served as dictator twice, and became censor in 230 BC. When Hannibal tore through Italy during the Second Punic War, Fabius was appointed dictator in 217 BC and faced a tactical problem: an outstanding commander with superior numbers who kept winning head-on. Rather than risk another catastrophic field battle, he targeted supply lines and took only small engagements on ground he controlled. Rome hated the approach — it looked like cowardice — but it worked, and the strategy later formed the basis for what we now call guerrilla warfare. He died in 203 BC, the year before Hannibal was finally beaten at Zama.