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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).

Mentioned in 11 works (45 total)

Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speeches · 2 mentions

Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speeches · 2 mentions

On the Manilian Law (On the Command of Pompey) speeches · 2 mentions

For Publius Sestius speeches · 2 mentions

Brutus rhetoric · 6 mentions

Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions

On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 6 mentions

Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 4 mentions

Ad Familiares 4.6 letters · 2 mentions

Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 13 mentions

On Duties philosophy · 4 mentions