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

Fabius closely followed Hannibal ’ s path of destruction, yet still refused to let himself be drawn out of the defensive.

In 54 BC Caesar let one legion, under the command of legate Caius Fabius, hibernate there.

Fabius gathered a fold of his toga to his chest and offered it, saying " Here, we bring you peace and war.

In the twelfth year of Gallienus ' reign ( 265 ), when usurpers were springing up in every quarter of the Roman world, a certain Celsus, who had never risen higher in the service of the state than the rank of a military tribune, living quietly on his lands in Africa, in no way remarkable except as a man of upright life and commanding person, was suddenly proclaimed emperor by Vibius Passienus, proconsul of the province, and Fabius Pomponianus, general of the Libyan frontier.

Allegedly proclaimed emperor by Vibius Passienus, proconsul of the province, and Fabius Pomponianus, general of the Libyan frontier.

" Upon ordering his army to join the battle and rescue their fellow Romans, Fabius exclaimed " We must make haste to rescue Minucius, who is a valiant man, and a lover of his country.

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.

Quintus Fabius Pictor ( flourished c. 200 BC, some sources give his birth as possibly in 254 BC ) was one of the earliest Roman historians and considered the first of the annalists.

It may have been written when Tacitus was young ; its dedication to Fabius Iustus would thus give the date of publication, but not the date of writing.

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.

It was Fabius Buteo, his kinsman who formally declared war in the Carthaginian Senate after the capture of Saguntum by Hannibal ( Liv.

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 ' strategy was especially frustrating to the majority of Romans who were eager to see a quick conclusion to the war.

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.

* Marcus Fabius ( C. f .) Dorsuo, consul in 345 BC, carried on the war against the Volsci and captured Sora.

Well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians and the ingenuity of Hannibal, Fabius initiated a war of attrition which was designed to exploit Hannibal's strategic vulnerabilities.

One of Ranuccio's hypotheses is that it refers to a victory of the consul Fabius Maximus Rullianus during the second war against Samnites in 326 BC.

The Senate now sent a delegation of " all oldish men-Quintus Fabius, Marcus Livius, Lucius Aemilius, Gaius Licinius, and Quintus Baebius " with plenipotentiary powers: the right to withhold or declare war on an ad hoc basis.

The first of the annalists, the father of Roman history, as he has been called, was Q. Fabius Pictor ; contemporary with him was Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who flourished during the Hannibalic war ( not to be confused with L. Cincius, the author of various political and antiquarian treatises ( de Fastis, de Comitiis, de Priscis Verbis ), who lived in the Augustan age, to which period Mommsen, considering them a later fabrication, refers the Greek annals of L. Cincius Alimentus ).

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.

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

Fabius Rusticus and Cluvius Rufus both wrote condemning histories on Caligula that are now lost.

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

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator ( ca.

Descended from an ancient patrician gens Fabii, he was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, a grandson of another Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges and a great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, all famous Consuls.

According to Fabius ' biographer Plutarch, Fabius possessed a mild temper and slowness in speaking.

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

Then Fabius quickly sought to calm the Roman people by asserting himself as a strong Dictator at the moment of what was perceived to be the worst crisis in Roman history.

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.

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.

And so Fabius, as Dictator, sought next to please the gods.

Plutarch isn't sure exactly how Fabius came up with this number, although he believes it was to honor of the perfection of the number three, as it is the first of the odd numbers, and one of the first of the prime numbers.

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 was well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians, and so Fabius refused to meet Hannibal in a pitched battle.

Fabius was able to harass the Carthaginian foraging parties, limiting Hannibal's ability to wreak destruction while conserving his own military force.

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

Governments have had the tendency to " bail out " poorly run businesses, often due to the sensitivity of job losses, when economically, it may be better to let the business fold.

: Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion on all who do not know you as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ ; let your Gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it ; turn the hearts of those who resist it ; and bring home to your fold those who have gone astray ; that there may be one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Usually, when the female is ready to mate, she may let the male simply " catch " her and he will thus grasp a fold of her skin above her neck area, or she will bow her head before him and simply " let " him take his grasp.

Botha's career lasted long enough for him to see South Africa let back into the international rugby fold and to play in one-off Tests against World Cup holders Australia and New Zealand.

Close to madness, he agrees to kill all of the mutants in return that the Friends of Humanity would let him return to the fold.

To attempt to outflank the enemy, the SDF-1's commander, Captain Henry J. Gloval ordered a space fold maneuver ; however, as the fold system was never used before and the crew's training was entirely theoretical, they were not aware of how to use it inside a planet's gravity field, let alone at their relatively low altitude above Macross Island.

Rather than let the team fold, Martin Rosenthal entered into an agreement to sell the Senators to Dey.

The mothers refused to fold their buggies to let the man on board the bus, despite the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 giving priority to wheelchair users.