Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
✓ Source-basedfallingRoman statesman and general (c. 280 - 203 BC)
He earned a nickname that meant "the delayer" - not for indecision, but for refusing to give Hannibal the pitched battle Rome kept demanding, choosing instead to starve supply lines and wait.
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Elogio di q. fabio massimo il temporeggiatore
Interieur, schoorsteenfries in de Burgemeesterskamer- de triomf van Q. Fabius Maximus - Amsterdam - 20011714 - RCE
Jan Lievens - Quintus Fabius Maximus - Google Art Project
Pietro della Vecchia - Hasdrubal's wife denouncing her husband before Scipio Africanus
Portretmedaillon van Q.Fabius Maximus in de boogzwikken van de galerij aan het binnenplein - Breda - 20039921 - RCE
Quintus Fabius Maximus Before the Senate of Carthage HermitageIn their own words 1
To his friends he said that he thought the man who feared gibes and jeers was more of a coward than the one who ran away from the enemy.
Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders, Plutarch; English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt
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About this person
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.
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