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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 strategy was in part ruined because of a lack of unity in the command of the Roman army, since Fabius ' Master of the Horse, Minucius, was a political enemy of Fabius.

At one point, Fabius was called by the priests to assist with certain sacrifices, and as such, Fabius left the command of the army in the hands of Minucius during his absence.

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

Minucius openly claimed that Fabius was cowardly because he failed to confront the Carthaginian forces.

After the battle there was some feeling that there would be conflict between Minucius and Fabius ; however, the younger soldier marched his men to Fabius ' encampment and he is reported to have said, " My father gave me life.

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

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Buteo and Bulbus ( or, less frequently, year 509 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Buteo ( or, less frequently, year 507 Ab urbe condita ).

Its 1771 edition offered the following as scientific evidence for the ark's size and capacity: "... Buteo and Kircher have proved geometrically, that, taking the common cubit as a foot and a half, the ark was abundantly sufficient for all the animals supposed to be lodged in it ... the number of species of animals will be found much less than is generally imagined, not amounting to a hundred species of quadrupeds ".

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

The archipelago of the Azores, Portugal, takes its name from the Portuguese language word for goshawk, ( açor ), because the explorers who discovered the archipelago thought the birds of prey they saw there were goshawks ; later it was found that these birds were kites or Common Buzzards ( Buteo buteo rothschildi ).

Buteo, signifying a kind of hawk, was originally given to a member of the Fabia gens because such a bird on one occasion settled upon his ship with a favorable omen.

* Quintus Fabius Buteo, quaestor in 134 BC ; apparently the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, and nephew of Scipio Aemilianus, by whom he was entrusted with the command of four thousand volunteers during the Numantine War.

For a long time, it was thought that the dark phase of the present bird was a distinct species Buteo fuliginosus.

Calatinus must have died by 216 BC, because Marcus Fabius Buteo ( censor in 241 BC ) was named the oldest living ex-censor ; Calatinus would have been senior to him in terms of the date of censorship and their respective ages.

Alexios was ordered to march against his brother-in-law Nikephoros Melissenos in Asia Minor but refused to fight his kinsman.

He was also a kinsman of Archbishop Eskil of Lund.

His kinsman Gaius Julius Civilis was paraded in chains in Rome before Nero ; though he was acquitted by Galba, he was retained at Rome, and when he returned to his kin in the year of upheaval in the Roman Empire, 69, he headed a Batavian rebellion.

The go ' el was a kinsman redeemer whose role included avenging bloodshed, redeeming land sold to others outside the family, and redeeming family members sold into slavery.

His kinsman, John Mark, who was a spectator of this barbarous action, privately interred his body.

Constantín's family dominated Fortriu after 789 and perhaps, if Constantín was a kinsman of Óengus I of the Picts ( Óengus son of Fergus ), from around 730.

Giric is not known to have been a kinsman of Kenneth's, although it has been suggested that he was related to him by marriage.

In The Song the man who served him as his closest adviser was his vassal and kinsman Álvar Fáñez " Minaya " ( meaning " My brother ", a compound word of Spanish possessive Mi ( My ) and Anaia, the basque word for brother ), although the historical Álvar Fáñez remained in Castile with Alfonso VI.

The patriarchal throne was filled with Photius, a renowned scholar and kinsman of Bardas.

Hammurabi ( Akkadian from Amorite ʻAmmurāpi, " the kinsman is a healer ", from ʻAmmu, " paternal kinsman ", and Rāpi, " healer "; ( died c. 1750 BC ) was the sixth king of Babylon ( that is, of the First Babylonian Dynasty ) from 1792 BC to 1750 BC middle chronology ( 1728 BC – 1686 BC short chronology ).

Upon the death of his kinsman Albert I, Duke of Prussia in 1568, the Duchy of Prussia was inherited by the latter's underage son Albert Frederick.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

J. Wenham asserts that Luke was " one of the Seventy, the Emmaus disciple, Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman.

One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.

Roger as a secular ruler seemed a reliable ally, since he was merely a vassal of his kinsman the Count of Apulia, himself a vassal of Rome, so it seemed safe at the time for Urban to give him these extraordinary powers, which were later to lead to bitter confrontations with Roger I's Hohenstaufen heirs.

He was born Gebhard of Calw, a son of the Swabian Count Hartwig of Calw and a kinsman of Emperor Henry III.

In 173, Severus ' kinsman Gaius Septimius Severus was appointed proconsul of the Africa Province.

Cearl, a kinsman of Creoda, followed Pybba in 606 ; in 615, Cearl gave his daughter Cwenburga in marriage to Edwin, king of Deira whom he had sheltered while he was an exiled prince.

In 1474, Albert married his daughter Barbara to Duke Henry XI of Głogów, who left his possessions on his death in 1476 to his widow with reversion to her family, an arrangement which was resisted by Henry's kinsman, Duke Jan II of Żagań.

The earliest post-conquest Norman chroniclers report that King Edward had previously sent Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury to appoint as his heir Edward's maternal kinsman, William of Normandy, and that at this later date Harold was sent to swear fealty.

He was kinsman triumvir to Licinia, a Vestal Virgin.