The fact that Paullus wrested control of the right wing is foreseen in Livy's own account of Fabius exhorting his friend prior to the battle to be wary the rashness of Varro and the inevitable portents.

Fabius did not attempt to fight the promotion of the overly-ambitious Minucius, but rather decided to wait until Minucius ' rashness caused him to run headlong into some disaster.

However, that may be, he did well as a soldier to trust to the dash and even rashness that had gained Arcot and triumphed at Calcutta since retreat, or even delay, might have resulted in defeat.

Count Grammont described Rupert as " brave and courageous even to rashness, but cross-grained and incorrigibly obstinate ... he was polite, even to excess, unseasonably ; but haughty, and even brutal, when he ought to have been gentle and courteous ... his manners were ungracious: he had a dry hard-favoured visage, and a stern look, even when he wished to please ; but, when he was out of humour, he was the true picture of reproof ".

According to the French historian Jehan de Waurin, who was present, the disaster was due to Talbot's rashness, and Fastolf only fled when resistance was hopeless.

Uncertain whether he should choose it as a seat of war, as he looked round on his scanty force of soldiers, and remembered with what a serious warning the rashness of Petilius had been punished, he resolved to save the province at the cost of a single town.

At first, owing to the rashness of the Thebans in the Persian service, the defenders had the advantage.

Many argue that had it not been for MacLehose's rashness, the PRC government might not have pressed to put the Hong Kong question on its agenda.

He wrote the details of his actions to Abu Bakr, who, both pained and angered by the rashness of Ikrimah and his disobedience, ordered him to proceed with his force to Oman to assist Hudaifa ; once Hudaifa had completed his task, to march to Mahra to help Arfaja, and thereafter go to Yemen to help Muhajir.

In particular, charges of rashness have been raised against him.

Craufurd's operations on the Côa and Águeda in 1810 were daring to the point of rashness ; the drawing on of the French forces into what became the Battle of the Côa in particular was a rare lapse in judgement that almost saw his removal from command.

Victory, as far as wit was concerned, remained with Marot, but his biographers suggest that a certain amount of ill-will was created against him by the squabble, and that, as in Dolet's case, his subsequent misfortunes were partly the result of his own rashness.

According to the American Kennel Club ’ s breed standards, " the dachshund is clever, lively and courageous to the point of rashness, persevering in above and below ground work, with all the senses well-developed.

In the following year his resolution and bravery, and also his uncontrolled rashness, played the most conspicuous part in deciding the day at the second battle of Nördlingen.

But the rashness of the Emperor's brother Titianus and of Proculus, prefect of the Praetorian Guards, added to Otho's feverish impatience, overruled all opposition, and an immediate advance was decided upon.

* June 9 – Battle of Fontaine-Française: Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.

Character: The Sapper has outstanding valour and daring in combat to the point of rashness.

He was also nicknamed Testa d ' feu (" Head of Fire ") for his rashness and military attitudes.

Their reasons for doing so are not clear ; they were variously claimed to be a result of deception by the Lancastrian forces, or treachery, or simple rashness on York's part.

" As he taught both philosophy and politics, so Plato represents his instructions as chiefly ethical, and gives preference to his distinction of ideas, such as courage, rashness, boldness, over similar attempts of other sophists.

When Michael discovers this, he berates Vincent for his rashness.

It was at this time, too, that Overbury wrote, and circulated widely in manuscript a poem called A Wife, which was a picture of the virtues which a young man should demand in a woman before he has the rashness to marry her.

Upon his return to the camp of the Allies at the beginning of 1710, Maurice displayed a courage so impetuous that Prince Eugene admonished him to not confuse rashness with valour.

Eventually, his numerical inferiority – and the price only too clearly paid by the divisional commander's rashness – decided him to sacrifice the single city of Londinium to save the province as a whole.

In his rashness and greed for the Clare lands, he robbed Margaret of much of her rightful inheritance.

As a textual critic he was distinguished by considerable rashness, and never hesitated to alter, rearrange or reject as spurious what failed to reach his standard of excellence.

She sends Lucetta away, but then, realising her own rashness, she picks up the fragments of letter and kisses them, trying to piece them back together.

But for this act of rashness he might have enjoyed the task of carrying into effect the home constitution for the government of India which he sketched in his evidence before the select committee of the House of Commons on Indian territories on 8 June 1852.

A select committee report concluded the company's losses were " mainly attributable to their own proceedings, characterised as they were in many respects by rashness and maladministration.

Any keenness of the Scots to attack is because they don't understand the superiority of Norman equipment: " And let not their rashness move you, because so many insignia of your valour cause no alarm to them.

Personality wise, Santiago is rather sensible and level-headed, which runs counterpoint to Joni's rashness.

" He did find, however, a vocabulary identified as Sabine of about 36 words in glosses by Roman authors ( such as Varro ) on other Greek and Latin authors and inscriptions.

Servius identifies Faunus with Fatuclus, and says his wife is Fatua or Fauna, deriving the names as Varro did from fari, " to speak ," " because they can foretell the future.

The fact that these military men did not mention the politician Varro, in recounting their understandings of the battle is perhaps stronger evidence of the irrelevance of the man as any kind of credit to Rome during the moment.

Varro also states that a vow was made that the Games would be repeated every hundred years, and another celebration did indeed take place in either 149 or 146 BC, at the time of the Third Punic War.

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.

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

Fabius had warned the other Consul for the year, Aemilius Paullus, to make sure that Varro remained unable to directly engage Hannibal.

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.

Ælain relates that Fabius Maximus resigned the dictatorship in consequence of a warning from these creatures ; and Cassius Flaminius, according to Varro, retired from the command of the cavalry for the same reason.

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.

Livy intricately described Varro as a demagogue, rousing popular passions against the painstaking strategies of Quintus Fabius Maximus who was, in fact, hampering Hannibal in the field.

Varro succeeded by maligning Fabius during the election process, and in directing the " limelight " onto himself ( Livy's descriptions ) such that he succeeded in taking the reins and ousting Fabius.