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.

Roman Dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus — Cunctator

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.

Their name derives from the tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus.

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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.

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.

* December 31 – Quintus Fabius Maximus, consul suffectus 45 BC

* 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.

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.

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.

* Quintus Fabius C. f. C. n. Pictor, the earliest of the Latin historians, he was an important source for later annalists, but most of his own work has been lost.

* Quintus Fabius ( Q. f. C. n .) Pictor, praetor in 189 BC, received Sardinia as his province, but was compelled by the pontifex maximus to remain at Rome, because he was Flamen Quirinalis ; his abdication was rejected by the senate, which designated him praetor peregrinus.

The earliest recorded attempt to mark a bird was made by Quintus Fabius Pictor.

* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Quintus Fabius Pictor

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In regard to authorship, it is believed that the dictator Sulla wrote some ; Quintus Novius, who flourished 50 years after the abdication of Sulla, wrote some fifty Atellan Fables, including Macchus Exsul (" Exiled Macchus "), Gallinaria (" The Henhouse "), Surdus (" The Deaf One "), Vindemiatores (" The Harvesters "), and Parcus (“ The Treasurer ”).

Quintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian ( Aulus Gellius xi.

Quintus Fabius Ambustus ( flourished early 4th century BCE ) was a politician in the Roman Republic, the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus ( pontifex maximus 390 BC ).

Quintus Fabius Ambustus ( flourished late 4th century BCE ) was a politician in the Roman Republic.

Quintus Mucius Scaevola ( flourished late 3rd century BC ) was a politician of the Roman Republic.

Quintus Mucius Scaevola ( flourished early 2nd century BC ) was a politician of the Roman Republic, believed to be the son of his namesake who was praetor in 215 BC.

Antonia ( gens ) | Quintus Antonius Balbus ( c. 82-83 BC )

Quintus Ennius ( c. 239 – c. 169 BC ) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

* Metellus Scipio ( Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica ) killed at the battle of Thapsus while his forces attempt to surrender ( b. c. 100 BC or 98 BC )

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, pontifex maximus and general ( b. c. 130 BC or 127 BC )

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( b. c. 210 BC )

He was the first of six successive Senators named Lucius Sergius Paullus, of Antioch, Pisidia, including one Consul Suffect in 94 and another Consul in 168, the last of whom was Lucius Sergius Paullus, Senator, father of Sergia Paulla, who married Quintus Anicius Faustus, Legate of Numidia and Consul in 198, and had Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, Legate of Moesia Inferior between 229 and 230 or c. 230 to 232.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, c. 340 – c.

Quintus Sertorius ( c. 126 BC – 73 BC ) was a Roman statesman and general, born in Nursia, in Sabine territory.

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ( c. 345 – 402 ) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters.

Quintus Asconius Pedianus ( c. 9 BC-c. AD 76 ), Roman grammarian and historian, was probably a native of Patavium ( Padua ).

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( c. 210 BC – 116 BC / 115 BC ) was a Praetor ( army commander ) in 148 BC, Consul in 143 BC, Proconsul of Hispania Citerior in 142 BC and Censor in 131 BC.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ( c. 130 BC – 63 BC ) was a pro-Sullan politician and general who was Roman consul in 80 BC.

* Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, ( c. 159-88 BC ), consul 117 BC

Massimo is the name of a Roman princely family of great age ; which by its own tradition descends from the ancient Maximi of republican Rome and from Quintus Fabius Maximus ( c. 275 BC – 203 BC ), called Cunctator ( the Delayer ).