Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Quintus

Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Quintus

▪ Roman statesman and commander
died 203 BC
 Roman commander and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics (whence the nickname Cunctator, meaning “delayer,” which was not his official cognomen) during the early stages of the Second Punic War (Punic War, Second) (218–201) gave Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal. Fabianism has come to mean a gradual or cautious policy.

      Fabius was consul in 233 and 228 and censor in 230. He may have been a Roman emissary to Carthage in 218 to demand reparations for Hannibal's seizure of Saguntum, in Spain. After Hannibal's victory over the Romans at Lake Trasimene (217), Fabius was elected dictator; he then initiated his strategy of attrition against the invaders. Maneuvering among the hills, where Hannibal's cavalry was useless, he cut off his enemy's supplies and harassed him incessantly. Fabius' tactics aroused controversy in Rome and a quarrel with Minucius Rufus, his master of the horse. The people then divided the command between Minucius and Fabius. True to his strategy of exhaustion, Fabius allowed Hannibal to ravage Campania. After the end of his dictatorship, the Romans again attempted to annihilate the invaders. The result was a disastrous Roman defeat at Cannae (216) and the reintroduction of Fabian strategy. Elected consul for a third and fourth time (215 and 214), Fabius commanded troops in Campania and Samnium. In his fifth consulship (209) he captured Tarentum (present-day Taranto), which Hannibal had held for three years, and was made princeps senatus, the first to speak during debates in the Senate. Fabius strenuously but unsuccessfully opposed Publius Cornelius Scipio's preparations for an invasion of Africa (205). By the time of his death he had been a pontifex for 12 years and an augur for 62, a combination unique until the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Julius Caesar in the late republic.

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