Fabius
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
brother · brother Fabius
in the texts
On Anger
Roman general (Fabius Maximus) whose strategy of delay against Hannibal is cited as proof that restraint from anger, not anger itself, saved Rome.
By what else did Fabius restore the broken forces of the empire, except that he knew how to delay and to draw things out and to wait—all of which the angry know not how to do?
Fabius used to say it was the most shameful excuse for a general:
On Fate
Example figure used in a logical syllogism concerning astrological prediction and death at sea.
‘If Fabius was born at the rising of the Dog-star, Fabius will not die at sea.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman nobleman noted for his skill in painting.
Do we suppose that, had it been counted to the credit of Fabius, a man of the noblest birth, that he could paint, we too should not have had many a Polyclitus and Parrhasius?
Meditations
Figure cited as an example of someone who clung to life and died regardless.
A homely yet effective help toward contempt of death is to run over those who have clung tenaciously to life.
On Benefits
Roman general known for his delaying strategy, cited as an example in the objection to Stoic doctrine
Is Fabius too, who 'by delaying restored the state,' rash?
De Fuga in Persecutione
The addressee of the treatise, who asked Tertullian whether Christians must flee persecution.
As regards your problem, brother, you have the response of our opinion and the exhortation.
You asked lately, brother Fabius, whether one must flee or not in persecution, since some such thing was being given out.