Plutarch tells us that Fabius believed that the disaster at Lake Trasimene was due, in part, to the fact that the gods had become neglected.

Before that battle, a series of omens had been witnessed, including a series of lightning bolts, which Fabius had believed were warnings from the gods.

It is not known if Fabius truly believed that these actions had won the gods over to the Roman side, although the actions probably did ( as intended ) convince the average Roman that the gods had finally been won over.

Fabius had told Minucius not to attack Hannibal in his absence, but Minucius disobeyed Fabius and attacked anyway.

Plutarch states that Metilius " boldly applied himself to the people in the behalf of Minucius ", and had Minucius granted powers equivalent to those of Fabius.

" It was only after Fabius had saved him from an attack by Hannibal that Minucius placed himself under Fabius ' command.

Shortly after Fabius had laid down his Dictatorship, Gaius Terentius Varro, was elected Consul.

The rashness of Varro did not surprise Fabius, but when Fabius learned of the size of the army ( eighty-eight thousand soldiers ) that Varro had raised, he became quite concerned.

When Marcus Livius, the governor of Tarentum, claimed the merit of recovering the town, Fabius rejoined, " Certainly, had you not lost it, I would have never retaken it.

Hannibal decided that it would be unwise to winter in the already devastated lowlands of Campania, but Fabius had ensured that all the passes out of Campania were blocked.

The Romans utilized the attritional strategy Fabius had taught them, and which, they finally realized, were the only feasible means of defeating Hannibal.

In Rome, by virtue of his high culture, Polybius was admitted to the most distinguished houses, in particular to that of Aemilius Paulus, the conqueror in the Third Macedonian War, who entrusted Polybius with the education of his sons, Fabius and Scipio Aemilianus ( who had been adopted by the eldest son of Scipio Africanus ).

This was generally regarded as a rebuke to Chirac and his government as well as the PS leadership, the majority save for the leftist faction and Laurent Fabius — had supported the proposed constitution.

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus had the command in Campania, during the year of his fourth consulship, and admitted the young soldier to the honour of intimate friendship.

Fabius had opposed the permission given to Scipio to carry out the attack into the enemy's home, and Cato, whose appointment was intended to monitor Scipio's behavior, adopted the views of his friend.

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.

Romans had divided their forces, Consul L. Caelius Matellus was near Lilybaeum while Numerius Fabius Buteo was besieging Drepanum at that time.

* Quintus Fabius Sanga, warned Cicero about the conspiracy of Catiline, after being informed by the ambassadors of the Allobroges.

Fabius rejected this, and instead let Minucius command half of the army, while he commanded the other half.

The timely arrival of Fabius with the other half of the army enables Minucius to escape after a severe mauling.

Two other, lesser known accounts have Remus killed by a blow to the head with a spade, wielded either by Romulus ' commander Fabius ( according to St. Jerome's version ) or by a man named Celer.

* 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 original town was divided and sub-divided into many other towns in the region, including all of the towns of Fabius ( 1798 ), Tully, Preble, and Scott ( the latter two now in Cortland County ), along with parts of the towns of Spafford, Otisco ( 1806 ), LaFayette ( 1825 ), Onondaga ( 1794 ), Truxton and Cuyler ( the latter two now in Cortland County ).

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.

At this point, polls showed her to be much more popular than her closest competitor, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, and other Socialist heavyweights Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jack Lang, another former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and François Hollande.

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.

Vitellius ' forces were divided into two armies, one commanded by Aulus Caecina Alienus and the other by Fabius Valens.

He then caused himself to be accompanied by the full complement of twenty-four lictors, and ordered the surviving Consul, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, to dismiss his lictors ( in essence, surrendering his office ), and to present himself before Fabius as a private citizen.

* Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Roman Consul, in office 322, 310, 308, 297, 295 BC

* Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, allied with the Aedui, defeated the Arverni and Allobroges in Transalpine Gaul, thus establishing the province for Rome.

* 297 BC: Consul Fabius Maximus Rullianus defeats the Samnites near Tifernum ( Liv.

** Fabius Servilianus, new Consul of Hispania Ulterior, after having sacked several cities loyal to Viriathus in Baetica and southern Lusitania, is defeated by the Lusitanians in Erisane ( in Baetica ).

Q. Fabius Pictor ( c. 250 BC ) tells that Roman consuls started for the first time 239 years after Rome's foundation.

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

The Roman Senate decided to appoint a Roman Dictator, and chose Fabius for the role, in part due to his advanced age and experience.

Upon hearing of this, Fabius became enraged, and as Dictator, he could have ordered Minucius ' execution for his disobedience.

When Fabius ' term as Dictator ended, Consular government was restored, and Gnaeus Servilius Geminus and Marcus Atilius Regulus assumed the Consulship for the remainder of the year.

He rallied the people, through the Roman assemblies, and won their support for his plan to abandon Fabius ' strategy, and engage Hannibal directly.

When word reached Rome of the disastrous Roman defeat under Varro and Paullus at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate and the People of Rome turned to Fabius for guidance.

The island was the location of a mock invasion during the military exercise Fabius in May 1944, rehearsing the preparations for D-Day.

The Roman army under Quintus Fabius Maximus intentionally deprived Hannibal of open battle, while making it difficult for Hannibal to forage for supplies.

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.

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

* The Roman historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi in Greece to consult the Oracle for advice about what Rome should do after its defeat in the Battle of Cannae.

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

The patrician senator Quintus Fabius Pictor used Diocles ' as a source for his own history of Rome, written around the time of Rome's war with Hannibal and probably intended for circulation among Rome's Greek-speaking allies.

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.

It is reported by Plutarch, that the lenient discipline of the troops under Scipio's command, and the exaggerated expense incurred by the general, provoked the protest of Cato ; that Scipio immediately afterwards replied angrily, saying he would give an account of victories, not of money ; that Cato left his place of duty after the dispute with Scipio about his alleged extravagance, and returning to Rome, condemned the uneconomical activities of his general to the senate ; and that, at the joint request of Cato and Fabius, a commission of tribunes was sent to Sicily to examine the behavior of Scipio, who was found not guilty upon the view of his extensive and careful arrangements for the transport of the troops.

* Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time.

* The Battle of Sentinum west of Anconum ends in defeat for a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Umbrians, and their Gallic allies at the hands of the Roman legions commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus ( who is killed in the battle ) and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus.

* Quintus Fabius Vibulanus becomes consul of the Roman Republic for the first of three times.