Fabius Rusticus was a friend of Seneca who was known for historical embellishment and misrepresentation.

The primary accounts, which possibly included histories written by Fabius Rusticus, Cluvius Rufus and Pliny the Elder, did not survive.

* Fabius Rusticus, a historian of the mid-1st century AD, frequently quoted by Tacitus on the life of Nero.

The magister equitum, Marcus Minucius Rufus, a political enemy of Fabius, is famously quoted exclaiming,

Based on these news both consuls could march against the Samnites, Fabius advancing by way of Sora and Decius through the territory of the Sidicini.

The newly elected consuls for 297 BC, Quintus Fabius Maximus and Decius Mus led both armies against Samnium, Barbatus going as lieutenant general ( legatus ) under Maximus.

The Fabius Government's inability to prevent both rising unemployment and inequality arguably contributed to the defeat of the French Socialists in the 1986 legislative election, which led Fabius to step down as prime minister.

* Gaius Fabius Dorsuo, bravely left the Capitoline Hill to perform a sacrifice when Rome was occupied by the Gauls following the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC, eluding the Gallic sentries both on his departure and his return.

* Fabius Justus, a distinguished rhetorician, and a friend of both Tacitus and the younger Plinius.

This theory is largely based on the fact that the manuscripts of the Ages of the World attribute the work to “ Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius ” ( Claudius and Gordianus both being names known to belong to members of the bishop ’ s immediate family ).

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

Fabius ' history provided a basis for the early books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, which he wrote inLatin, and for several Greek-language histories of Rome, including Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch's early 2nd century Life of Romulus.

Although Livy does not cite his source by name, it is likely to have been Quintus Fabius Pictor, a Roman historian who fought in and wrote on the Second Punic War.

Fabius ' work utilized the writings of the Greek historian Diocles of Peparethus, who allegedly wrote an early history of Rome.

Like Fabius Pictor, he wrote in Greek.

Polybius's surviving histories say little of Varro at Cannae, but since his informants were the other general's son Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and grandsons Scipio Aemilianus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, this is not surprising.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

He was also Chief Augur ( at a very young age ) and Pontifex, but never Pontifex Maximus according to Gaius Stern ( citing Livy on Fabius ).

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

He owed his elevation to the throne to Caecina and Fabius Valens, commanders of two legions on the Rhine.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

When Julius Caesar marched on Rome with legio XIII, he ordered his legate Gaius Fabius to march on Iberia and to secure the passes through the Pyrenees.

The difference is that Fabius commanded a numerically superior army than his opponent and had no supply problems, and had room to maneuver, while Hamilcar was mostly static and had a far smaller army than the Romans and was dependent on seaborne supplies from Carthage.

* Corey is an unincorporated community on M-60 near the eastern boundary with Fabius Township in St. Joseph County at.

The most useful books of botany, pharmacy and medicine used by students and scholars were supplemented commentaries on Dioscorides, including the works of Fuchs, Anguillara, Mattioli, Maranta, Cesalpino, Dodoens, Fabius Columna, Gaspard and Johann Bauhin, and De Villanueva / Servetus.

* The youngest appointed Prime minister during the 5th Republic was Laurent Fabius, on 17th July 1984.

When Gaius Gracchus and M. Fulvius Flaccus were defeated for re-election by Opimius and Fabius, Gracchus organized a mass protest on the Aventine Hill.

The Fabius Village Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Fabius lost territory to the new towns: Tully ( 1806 ) and Truxton ( 1808 on the formation of Cortland County )

* Fabius – The Village of Fabius on NY-80 and NY-91.

However, several well-known members of the Party, including Laurent Fabius, and left-wingers Henri Emmanuelli and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, asked the public for a " no " vote in 29 May 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution, where the proposed Constitution was rejected.

The Fabius Government also sought to reduce penalties on families with working mothers by substantially increasing the income ceiling for dual-income families receiving the young child allowance.

After the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, on 10 July 1985, Prime Minister Fabius summoned journalists to his office on 22 September 1985 to read a 200 word statement in which he said: " The truth is cruel ," and acknowledged that " Agents of the French secret service sank this boat.

Fabius, we are told, reminded Minucius that it was Hannibal, and not he, who was the enemy.

The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.

* Africanus Fabius Maximus and Iullus Antonius are Roman Consuls.

* Quintus Aelius Tubero and Paullus Fabius Maximus are Roman Consuls.

* Quintus Fabius Ambustus and two other Fabii are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of Celts ( whom the Romans call Gauls ), under Brennus, who are advancing down the Tiber while the Celtic army is besieging Clusium.

The town of Fabius and some of the town's 1950s landmarks-the Fabius Central School and the famous Shea's General Store are featured in the novel, The Pompey Hollow Book Club by Jerome Mark Antil.

* Current French ministers: Laurent Fabius, Pierre Moscovici, Michel Sapin, Fleur Pellerin ( deputy minister ) ( typically one-third of every French cabinet since the 1960s and one-half of the Cabinet for recent administrations until Sarkozy's are ENA's alumni ).

But neither recognized this, and the last three years of the war are marked by an ever-increasing friction between the " Fabius " and the " Marcellus ," as they were called, of the Austrian army.

Members of the gens are known as late as the 2nd century, but persons bearing the name of Fabius continue to appear into the latest period of the Empire.

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.

The twenty-one years of his life which followed were largely occupied in the discharge of his duties in the minor political post of a Rathausmann which he had obtained by lot, and in the preparation of his Bibliotheca medica, the botanical, surgical and anatomical parts of which he lived to complete ; but he also found time to write the three philosophical romances Usong ( 1771 ), Alfred ( 1773 ) and Fabius and Cato ( 1774 ), in which his views as to the respective merits of despotism, of limited monarchy and of aristocratic republican government are fully set forth.

This left the field wide open for numerous potential candidacies: among those who are known to have considered a run, or were strongly urged by others, are Jack Lang, Pierre Joxe, Laurent Fabius, Ségolène Royal and Robert Badinter.

They are first referred to in the letter of Pope Cornelius to Bishop Fabius of Antioch written in 251., where it is said that there were then at Rome 46 priests, 7 deacons, 7 subdeacons, 42 acolytes, and 52 exorcists, lectors, and ostiaries, or doorkeepers.

) The only two recorded examples of this are High Icelandic ( Háfrónska ), and the usage of the German renaissance humanist Johann Georg Turmair who even translated the name of the ancient Roman general Fabius Cunctator into Zauderer Bohnenmaier ( i. e. literally “ Laggard Bean-Mayor ”).

** The Roman forces of Fabius Maximus Aemilianus are defeated in Ossuma ( near modern Córdoba ).

** The Roman forces of Fabius Maximus Aemilianus are totally defeated near what is today the city of Beja in Alentejo.