person
Q. Maximi
also: Quintus Maximus
Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator, five times consul (233-209 BC), dictator 217 in the dark days after Trasimene, the architect of the Fabian strategy of delay against Hannibal. The standing exemplum of patient Roman virtue (Verr. 2.4.4 — though the Maximus there is the conqueror of Tarentum; Pro Sest. 143; Pro lege Manilia 47).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 4.6 §1 Q. Maximus, who lost a son who had been consul
Q. Fabius Maximus 'Cunctator', the great delayer who wore down Hannibal, lost his son (consul in 213 BC) and famously delivered the son's funeral eulogy himself. Cicero cites him first in a canonical Roman list of fathers who bore the loss of distinguished sons with public composure.
- Cato the Elder, On Old Age §10 as a very young soldier I marched with him to Capua in his fourth consulship
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus 'Cunctator' (the Delayer), five times consul, dictator in 217 BC, whose strategy of attrition wore down Hannibal after Cannae. The recovery of Tarentum was in 209 BC.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.70 Quintus Maximus, who carried out for burial his son of consular rank
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus 'Cunctator' (d. 203 BC), who delivered the funeral eulogy of his own son, a former consul. He heads Cicero's roll of Romans who bore the loss of children without unmanly grief.