MAXIMUS, elder son
to see whether you would remember that you were of the preceding, was curule aedile in B.
to see whether you would remember that you were of the preceding, was curule aedile in B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
§ 10; the command ; of cowardice, of incapability, and
comp. Dion Cass. Fr. 147 ; Liv. Epit. xiv. ; Zonar. even of treachery, although he gave up the produce
viii. 6. ) Fabius was slain in his third consul- of his estates to ransom Roman prisoners. Hanni-
ship, while engaged in quelling some disturbances bal alone appreciated the conduct of Fabius. But
at Vulsinii in Etruria. (Zonar, viii. 7 ; Flor. i. his own master of the horse, M. Minucius Rufus,
21; Obseq. 27; comp. Vict. Vir. Ill. 36. ) Like headed the clamour against him, and the senate,
his father and grandfather, Fabius Gurges was incensed by the ravage of their Campanian estates,
princeps senatus. (Plin. H. N. vii. 41. )
joined with the impatient commonalty in condemn-
3. Q. FABIUS (Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS? ). From ing his dilatory policy. Minucius, during a brief
the date alone of the only recorded fact of his life absence of Fabius from the camp, obtained some
(Val. Max. vi. 6. § 5), it is probable that he was slight advantage over Hannibal. A tribune of the
à son of the preceding, and father of Fabius the plebs, M. Metilius, brought forward a bill for di-
Great Dictator in the second Punic war. Fabius viding the command equally between the dictator
was aedile in B. C. 265, and, for an assault on its and the master of the horse, and the senate and
ambassadors, was sent in custody of a quaestor to the tribes passed it. Minucius was speedily en-
Apollonia in Epeirus to be dealt with at pleasure. trapped, and would have been destroyed by Han-
The Apolloniates, however, dismissed him unpun- nibal, had not Fabius generously hastened to his
ished. (Liv. Epit. xv. ; Dion Cass. Fr. 43 ; rescue. Hannibal, on his retreat from Fabius, is
Zonar. vii. 8. )
reported to have said, “ I thought yon cloud would
4. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS, with the one day break from the hills in a pelting storm. ”
agnomens VERRUCosus, from a wart on his upper Minucius, who though rash was magnanimous, re-
lip, Ovicula, or the Lamb, from the mildness or signed his command, but Fabius scrupulously laid
apathy of his temper (Plut. Fab. 1 ; comp. Varr. down his office at its legal expiration in six months,
Ř. R. ii. 1), and CUNCTATOR, from his caution in bequeathing his example to the consuls who buic-
war, grandson of Fabius Gurges, and, perhaps, son ceeded him. Aemilius copied, Varro disregarded
of the preceding, was consul for the first time in liis injunctions, and the rout at Cannae illustrated
B. C. 233. Liguria was his province, and it af- the wisdom of Fabius' warning to Aemilius,
forded him a triumph (Fasti) and a pretext for “ Remember, you have to dread not only Hannibal
dedicating a temple to Honour. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. but Varro. " Fabius was, however, among the first
ii. 23. ) He was censor in B. C. 230 ; consul a on Varro's return from Cannae to thank him for
second time in 228 ; opposed the agrarian law of not having despaired of his country ; and the de-
C. Flaminius in 227 (FLAMINIUS, No. 1]; was dic-fensive measures which the senate adopted in that
tator for holding the comitia in 221, and in 218 season of dismay were dictated by him. After the
legatus from the senate to Carthage, to demand winter of B. c. 216–215, the war gradually assumed
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a new character, and, though still eminent, Fabius (Liv. Xxxii. 42); he pronounced the funeral ora.
was no longer its presiding spirit. He was elected tion of the elder (Laudatio) (Cic. de Sen. 4),
pontifex in 216, was already a member of the au- and though, strictly speaking, noi eloquent, he was
gural college, which office he held sixty-two years neither an unready nor an illiterate speaker. (Cic.
(Liv. xxx. 26); dedicated by public commission Brut. 14, 18. ) He adopted, probably on account
the temple of Venus Erycina, and opposed filling of the tender age of his younger, and after the de-
up with Lating the vacancies which the war had cease of his elder son, a son of L. Paullus Aemilius,
made in the senate. In B. c. 215 he was consul the conqueror of Perseus. (Plut. Paull. Acm. 5. )
for the third time, when he raraged Campania and Besides the life, by Plutarch, which is probably
began the siege of Capua. On laying down the a compilation from the archives of the Fabian
fasces he admonished the people and senate to family, the history of Fabius occupies a large
drop all party feelings, and to choose such men space in all narratives of the second Punic war.
only for consuls as were competent to the times. (Polyb. iii. 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 101, 103,
His advice led to his own re-election, B. c. 214. In 105, 106, x. 1. $ 10, xviii. Fr. Hist. 18; Liv. XX.
this year he made an inroad into Samnium and xxi. xxii. xxiii. xxiv. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii. xxix.
took Casilinum. In 213 Fabius served as legatus XXX. ; Florus, Eutropius, and the epitomists gene-
to his own son, Q. Fabius (No. 5), consul in that rally ; Cic. Brut. 18, Leg. Agrar. ii. 22, Tuscul.
year, and an anecdote is preserved (Liv. xxiv. 44 ; iii. 28, Nat. Deor. iii
. 32, In Verr. Acc. v. 10,
Plut. Fab. 24) which exemplifies the strictness of De Sen. 4, 17, De Off: i. 30 ; Sall. Jug. 4 ; Varr.
the Roman discipline. On entering the camp at Fr. p. 241, ed. Bipont. ; Dion Cass. Fr. 48, 55 ;
Suessula Fabius advanced on horseback to greet Appian, Annib. 11-16, 31; Quint. Inst. vi. 3.
He was passing the lictors when the $$ 52, 61, viii. 2. $ 11; Plin. H. N. xxii. 5; Sen.
consul sternly bade him dismount. “My son," de Ben. ii. 7 ; Sil. Ital. Punic. vii. )
exclaimed the elder Fabius alighting, “I wished 5. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N.
MAXIMUS, elder son
to see whether you would remember that you were of the preceding, was curule aedile in B. C. 215,
consul. ”
On Hannibal's march upon Rome, in and praetor in 214. He was stationed in Apulia
B. C. 211, Fabius was again the principal stay of (Liv. xxiv. 9, 11, 12), in the neighbourhood of
the senate, and earnestly dissuaded abandoning Luceria (ib. 12, 20), and co-operated ably with the
the siege of Capua, which would have been other commanders in the second Punic war. (Cic.
yielding to the Carthaginian's feint on the capi- pro Rab. Post. 1. ) He was consul in B. c. 213, when
tal. Fabius was consul for the fifth time in B. C. Apulia was again his province (Liv. xxiv. 45, 46).
209, was invested with the almost hereditary title His father in this year served under him as legatus
of the Fabii Maximi - Princeps senatus, –and at Suessula. (Liv. xxiv. 43, 44 ; Plut. Fab. 24. )
inflicted a deadly wound on Hannibal's tenure of The younger Fabius was legatus to the consul M.
Southern Italy by the recapture of Tarentum. The Livius Salinator B. C. 207. (Liv. xxviii. 9. ) He
citadel of Tarentum had never fallen into the hands died soon after this period, and his funeral oration
of the Carthaginians, and M. Livius Macatus, its was pronounced by his father. (Cic. de Nat. Deor.
governor, some years afterwards, claimed the merit iii. 32, Tuscul. iii. 28, De Sen. 4, ad Fam. iv. 6. )
of recovering the town. Certainly,” rejoined 6. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS, second
Fabius, “had you not lost, I bad never retaken son of No. 5, was elected augur in the room of his
it. ” (Plut. Fab. 23 ; Cic. de Orat. ii. 67. ) The father, B. C. 203 (Liv. xxx. 26), although he was
plunder of the town was given up to the soldiers, then very young, and had borne no office previously,
but, a question arising whether certain colossal He died in B. c. 196. (Liv. xxxiii. 42. )
statues and pictures of the tutelary deities of Ta- 7. Q. Fabius MAXIMUS, praetor peregrinus in
rentum should be sent to Rome,“ Nay,” said
B. C. 181 (Liv. xl. 18), was probably the same
Fabius, “let us leave to the Tarentines their angry person with Q. Fabius, quaestor of the proconsul
gods. ” (Liv. xxvii. 16; Plut. Fab. 22. ) He re- L. Manlius in Spain, B. c. 185. (Liv. xxxix. 29. )
moved thither, however, a statue of Hercules, the His relation to the preceding Maximi is uncertain.
mythic ancestor of the Fabii, and placed it in the 8. Q. Fabius Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS ARMI-
Capitol. M. Livius Salinator and C. Claudius LIANUS, was by adoption only a Fabius Maximus,
Nero, consuls elect for B. C. 208, were at open being by birth the eldest son of L. Paullus Aemi-
enmity (Liv. xxvii. 35, xxix. 37; Val. Max. iv. lius, the conqueror of Perseus, consul in B. c. 182.
2); and their reconciliation, of the highest moment Fabius served under his father (Aemilius) in the
to the commonwealth, was principally the work of last Macedonian war, B. c. 168, and was despatched
Fabius. In the closing years of the second Punic by him to Rome with the news of his victory at
war Fabius appears to less advantage. The war Pydna. (Polyb. xxix. 6. ) Fabius was praetor in
had become aggressive under a new race of generals. Sicily B. c. 149–148, and consul in 145. Spain
Fabius, already in mature manhood at the close of was his province, where he encountered, and at
the first, was advanced in years in the later period length defeated Viriarathus. (Liv. xliv. 35; Ap-
of the second Punic war. He disapproved the new pian, Hispan. 65, 67, 90, Maced. 17; Plut. Paull.
tactics; he dreaded, perhaps he envied, the political Aem. 5; Cic. de Amic. 25. ) Fabius was the
supremacy of Scipio, and was his uncompromising pupil and patron of the historian Polybius, who has
opponent in his scheme of invading Africa. Fabius recorded some interesting and honourable traits of
did not live to witness the issue of the war and the his filial and fraternal conduct, and of the affection
triumph of his rival. He died in B. c. 203, about entertained for him by bis younger brother, Scipio
the time of Hannibal's departure from Italy. His Aemilianus. (Polyb. xviii
. 18. § 6, xxxii. 8.
wealth was great; yet the people defrayed by con- $ 4, 9. § 9, 10. § 3, 14, xxxii. 6. & 3, 9. 95
tribution the funeral charges of their “ father," the xxxviii. 3. § 8; Cic. De Amic. 19, Paradox. 6
“great dictator,” “who singly, by his caution, $ 2. )
saved the state.
9. Q. FABIUS Q. AEMILIANI P. Q. N. Max.
Fabius had two sons ; the younger survived him Imus, surnained ALLOBROGICUS, from his victory
Fabius as
ad a man
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comp. Dion Cass. Fr. 147 ; Liv. Epit. xiv. ; Zonar. even of treachery, although he gave up the produce
viii. 6. ) Fabius was slain in his third consul- of his estates to ransom Roman prisoners. Hanni-
ship, while engaged in quelling some disturbances bal alone appreciated the conduct of Fabius. But
at Vulsinii in Etruria. (Zonar, viii. 7 ; Flor. i. his own master of the horse, M. Minucius Rufus,
21; Obseq. 27; comp. Vict. Vir. Ill. 36. ) Like headed the clamour against him, and the senate,
his father and grandfather, Fabius Gurges was incensed by the ravage of their Campanian estates,
princeps senatus. (Plin. H. N. vii. 41. )
joined with the impatient commonalty in condemn-
3. Q. FABIUS (Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS? ). From ing his dilatory policy. Minucius, during a brief
the date alone of the only recorded fact of his life absence of Fabius from the camp, obtained some
(Val. Max. vi. 6. § 5), it is probable that he was slight advantage over Hannibal. A tribune of the
à son of the preceding, and father of Fabius the plebs, M. Metilius, brought forward a bill for di-
Great Dictator in the second Punic war. Fabius viding the command equally between the dictator
was aedile in B. C. 265, and, for an assault on its and the master of the horse, and the senate and
ambassadors, was sent in custody of a quaestor to the tribes passed it. Minucius was speedily en-
Apollonia in Epeirus to be dealt with at pleasure. trapped, and would have been destroyed by Han-
The Apolloniates, however, dismissed him unpun- nibal, had not Fabius generously hastened to his
ished. (Liv. Epit. xv. ; Dion Cass. Fr. 43 ; rescue. Hannibal, on his retreat from Fabius, is
Zonar. vii. 8. )
reported to have said, “ I thought yon cloud would
4. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS, with the one day break from the hills in a pelting storm. ”
agnomens VERRUCosus, from a wart on his upper Minucius, who though rash was magnanimous, re-
lip, Ovicula, or the Lamb, from the mildness or signed his command, but Fabius scrupulously laid
apathy of his temper (Plut. Fab. 1 ; comp. Varr. down his office at its legal expiration in six months,
Ř. R. ii. 1), and CUNCTATOR, from his caution in bequeathing his example to the consuls who buic-
war, grandson of Fabius Gurges, and, perhaps, son ceeded him. Aemilius copied, Varro disregarded
of the preceding, was consul for the first time in liis injunctions, and the rout at Cannae illustrated
B. C. 233. Liguria was his province, and it af- the wisdom of Fabius' warning to Aemilius,
forded him a triumph (Fasti) and a pretext for “ Remember, you have to dread not only Hannibal
dedicating a temple to Honour. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. but Varro. " Fabius was, however, among the first
ii. 23. ) He was censor in B. C. 230 ; consul a on Varro's return from Cannae to thank him for
second time in 228 ; opposed the agrarian law of not having despaired of his country ; and the de-
C. Flaminius in 227 (FLAMINIUS, No. 1]; was dic-fensive measures which the senate adopted in that
tator for holding the comitia in 221, and in 218 season of dismay were dictated by him. After the
legatus from the senate to Carthage, to demand winter of B. c. 216–215, the war gradually assumed
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MAXIMUS.
1
MAXIMUS.
eret the AT
of the Art
preceding,
Per Areen
famons by
ning in the
be bad bori
pender of
Fabianes a
teple of
1 603:0e of
ii. p 153
esmaCic.
i
his son.
a new character, and, though still eminent, Fabius (Liv. Xxxii. 42); he pronounced the funeral ora.
was no longer its presiding spirit. He was elected tion of the elder (Laudatio) (Cic. de Sen. 4),
pontifex in 216, was already a member of the au- and though, strictly speaking, noi eloquent, he was
gural college, which office he held sixty-two years neither an unready nor an illiterate speaker. (Cic.
(Liv. xxx. 26); dedicated by public commission Brut. 14, 18. ) He adopted, probably on account
the temple of Venus Erycina, and opposed filling of the tender age of his younger, and after the de-
up with Lating the vacancies which the war had cease of his elder son, a son of L. Paullus Aemilius,
made in the senate. In B. c. 215 he was consul the conqueror of Perseus. (Plut. Paull. Acm. 5. )
for the third time, when he raraged Campania and Besides the life, by Plutarch, which is probably
began the siege of Capua. On laying down the a compilation from the archives of the Fabian
fasces he admonished the people and senate to family, the history of Fabius occupies a large
drop all party feelings, and to choose such men space in all narratives of the second Punic war.
only for consuls as were competent to the times. (Polyb. iii. 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 101, 103,
His advice led to his own re-election, B. c. 214. In 105, 106, x. 1. $ 10, xviii. Fr. Hist. 18; Liv. XX.
this year he made an inroad into Samnium and xxi. xxii. xxiii. xxiv. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii. xxix.
took Casilinum. In 213 Fabius served as legatus XXX. ; Florus, Eutropius, and the epitomists gene-
to his own son, Q. Fabius (No. 5), consul in that rally ; Cic. Brut. 18, Leg. Agrar. ii. 22, Tuscul.
year, and an anecdote is preserved (Liv. xxiv. 44 ; iii. 28, Nat. Deor. iii
. 32, In Verr. Acc. v. 10,
Plut. Fab. 24) which exemplifies the strictness of De Sen. 4, 17, De Off: i. 30 ; Sall. Jug. 4 ; Varr.
the Roman discipline. On entering the camp at Fr. p. 241, ed. Bipont. ; Dion Cass. Fr. 48, 55 ;
Suessula Fabius advanced on horseback to greet Appian, Annib. 11-16, 31; Quint. Inst. vi. 3.
He was passing the lictors when the $$ 52, 61, viii. 2. $ 11; Plin. H. N. xxii. 5; Sen.
consul sternly bade him dismount. “My son," de Ben. ii. 7 ; Sil. Ital. Punic. vii. )
exclaimed the elder Fabius alighting, “I wished 5. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N.
MAXIMUS, elder son
to see whether you would remember that you were of the preceding, was curule aedile in B. C. 215,
consul. ”
On Hannibal's march upon Rome, in and praetor in 214. He was stationed in Apulia
B. C. 211, Fabius was again the principal stay of (Liv. xxiv. 9, 11, 12), in the neighbourhood of
the senate, and earnestly dissuaded abandoning Luceria (ib. 12, 20), and co-operated ably with the
the siege of Capua, which would have been other commanders in the second Punic war. (Cic.
yielding to the Carthaginian's feint on the capi- pro Rab. Post. 1. ) He was consul in B. c. 213, when
tal. Fabius was consul for the fifth time in B. C. Apulia was again his province (Liv. xxiv. 45, 46).
209, was invested with the almost hereditary title His father in this year served under him as legatus
of the Fabii Maximi - Princeps senatus, –and at Suessula. (Liv. xxiv. 43, 44 ; Plut. Fab. 24. )
inflicted a deadly wound on Hannibal's tenure of The younger Fabius was legatus to the consul M.
Southern Italy by the recapture of Tarentum. The Livius Salinator B. C. 207. (Liv. xxviii. 9. ) He
citadel of Tarentum had never fallen into the hands died soon after this period, and his funeral oration
of the Carthaginians, and M. Livius Macatus, its was pronounced by his father. (Cic. de Nat. Deor.
governor, some years afterwards, claimed the merit iii. 32, Tuscul. iii. 28, De Sen. 4, ad Fam. iv. 6. )
of recovering the town. Certainly,” rejoined 6. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS, second
Fabius, “had you not lost, I bad never retaken son of No. 5, was elected augur in the room of his
it. ” (Plut. Fab. 23 ; Cic. de Orat. ii. 67. ) The father, B. C. 203 (Liv. xxx. 26), although he was
plunder of the town was given up to the soldiers, then very young, and had borne no office previously,
but, a question arising whether certain colossal He died in B. c. 196. (Liv. xxxiii. 42. )
statues and pictures of the tutelary deities of Ta- 7. Q. Fabius MAXIMUS, praetor peregrinus in
rentum should be sent to Rome,“ Nay,” said
B. C. 181 (Liv. xl. 18), was probably the same
Fabius, “let us leave to the Tarentines their angry person with Q. Fabius, quaestor of the proconsul
gods. ” (Liv. xxvii. 16; Plut. Fab. 22. ) He re- L. Manlius in Spain, B. c. 185. (Liv. xxxix. 29. )
moved thither, however, a statue of Hercules, the His relation to the preceding Maximi is uncertain.
mythic ancestor of the Fabii, and placed it in the 8. Q. Fabius Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS ARMI-
Capitol. M. Livius Salinator and C. Claudius LIANUS, was by adoption only a Fabius Maximus,
Nero, consuls elect for B. C. 208, were at open being by birth the eldest son of L. Paullus Aemi-
enmity (Liv. xxvii. 35, xxix. 37; Val. Max. iv. lius, the conqueror of Perseus, consul in B. c. 182.
2); and their reconciliation, of the highest moment Fabius served under his father (Aemilius) in the
to the commonwealth, was principally the work of last Macedonian war, B. c. 168, and was despatched
Fabius. In the closing years of the second Punic by him to Rome with the news of his victory at
war Fabius appears to less advantage. The war Pydna. (Polyb. xxix. 6. ) Fabius was praetor in
had become aggressive under a new race of generals. Sicily B. c. 149–148, and consul in 145. Spain
Fabius, already in mature manhood at the close of was his province, where he encountered, and at
the first, was advanced in years in the later period length defeated Viriarathus. (Liv. xliv. 35; Ap-
of the second Punic war. He disapproved the new pian, Hispan. 65, 67, 90, Maced. 17; Plut. Paull.
tactics; he dreaded, perhaps he envied, the political Aem. 5; Cic. de Amic. 25. ) Fabius was the
supremacy of Scipio, and was his uncompromising pupil and patron of the historian Polybius, who has
opponent in his scheme of invading Africa. Fabius recorded some interesting and honourable traits of
did not live to witness the issue of the war and the his filial and fraternal conduct, and of the affection
triumph of his rival. He died in B. c. 203, about entertained for him by bis younger brother, Scipio
the time of Hannibal's departure from Italy. His Aemilianus. (Polyb. xviii
. 18. § 6, xxxii. 8.
wealth was great; yet the people defrayed by con- $ 4, 9. § 9, 10. § 3, 14, xxxii. 6. & 3, 9. 95
tribution the funeral charges of their “ father," the xxxviii. 3. § 8; Cic. De Amic. 19, Paradox. 6
“great dictator,” “who singly, by his caution, $ 2. )
saved the state.
9. Q. FABIUS Q. AEMILIANI P. Q. N. Max.
Fabius had two sons ; the younger survived him Imus, surnained ALLOBROGICUS, from his victory
Fabius as
ad a man
On the dea
Fabius gave
and prac. out.
a fragment
Med 34
Oreal; Api
(H. N.
preceding.
10. Q. F
its ALLE
remarkable
inadiced
estate;
and
paibition
era i 33 ; 1
11. Q. F
atomen Si
Serria, by
therine bro
C 141.
in Bc. 142
war with
1. 4; Cic.
Valerias M
to Fabius
confirm.
12. Q. F
praetor in
peachment
by L. Cras
de Orat. i
He conden
plity; but
Pompeins
patria pot
Nuceria
$5; Oros.
13. Q.
joined wit
prosecution
10. 10) for
(Cie im Vo
Orelli)
Spain, BC
tramph as
99
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13.
1
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MAXIMUS.
MAXIMUS.
!
ced the funeral op
-) (Cie de Som the
not eloquent, be wa
terate speakez (ac
probably an account
gez, and after the de
í L. Paullos Acains
Plut Paul de)
uch, wbich is probably
-chives of the Falas
bius occupies a la
she second Penie z
92, 93, 94, 101, 102
Fr. Hist. 18; Lit I
vi. UT IT IEL
and the epitomists gens
1
7.
