** Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )

* Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )

* The " delaying " tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus " Cunctator " against Hannibal Barca during the Second Punic War.

Rullianus ' son was Fabius Gurges, and his great-grandson the Fabius Maximus, Cunctator, of the Second Punic War.

The Society was named after Fabius Cunctator, a suggestion by Frank Podmore, because of Fabius ’ successful policy of gradual change that the society favored.

:::*" Resolution I .— That the Society be called the Fabian Society ( as Mr. Podmore explained in allusion to the victorious policy of Fabius Cunctator ) was carried by 9 votes to 2.

* The Romans under Fabius Maximus Cunctator capture Tarentum ( modern Taranto ), which the Carthaginian general Hannibal has held for three years.

Fabius gains the name Cunctator ( The Delayer ) for this strategy.

Even the wealthy Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus did not hesitate in giving his two oldest boys up for adoption, one to the Cornelii Scipiones ( Scipio Aemilianus, the winner of the Third Punic War ) the other to Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator.

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator ( ca.

His agnomen Cunctator ( akin to the English noun cunctation ) means " delayer " in Latin, and refers to his tactics in deploying the troops during the Second Punic War.

The Romans were unimpressed with this defensive strategy and at first gave Fabius his epithet Cunctator as an insult.

Indeed, Fabius received the surname " Cunctator " (" the Delayer ") because of his policy of not meeting Hannibal in open battle but through guerilla, scorched earth tactics.

* 209 – 203 BC: Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator.

* Quintus Fabius Q. f. Q. n. Maximus Verrucosus, afterwards surnamed Cunctator, consul in 233, 228, 215, 214 and 209 BC, censor in 230, and dictator in 221 and 217, princeps senatus ; triumphed in 233.

Although Rullianus ' fame is undoubted, the main source of his life is Livy, who in turn worked from annals by Fabius Pictor and others, and many of the details are suspiciously similar to stories of the Cunctator.

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