"Cunctator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his vessel so long as the enemy's fleet is uncaptured, thirty families, apothecaries, grocers, vintners, tanners admitted among the nobles, a bravery, a public spirit like that of Athens under Themistocles and of Rome under Fabius Cunctator. If, from this time forth, the inward fire abates we still feel its warmth for many long years, longer kept up than in the rest of Italy, and sometimes demonstrating its ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 - Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) • Various
... the word is suggested by the name of Fabius Cunctator, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, addressed by Virg. (AEn. vi. 846) as "Unus qui ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... Fabius Cunctator (or "Fabius the Procrastinator"), a general who, instead of fighting actual battles with the Carthaginian Hannibal, the great enemy of Rome, preferred to tire him out by keeping him waiting and never giving battle. His name has given us the word Fabian, to describe ...
— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill |
