Fabius

Family: Rome · Role: statesman and general · First appears: Comparison of Pericles with Fabius

Life events

Fabius retook Tarentum.(Comparison of Pericles with Fabius · 📍 Tarentum)
- “We may set Tarentum retaken against Samos won by Pericles”
Fabius rescued Minucius and his army from destruction.(Comparison of Pericles with Fabius)
- With: Minucius
- “that memorable rescue of Minucius, when Fabius redeemed both him and his army from utter destruction”
Hannibal escaped Fabius and defeated him after the flaming-oxen stratagem.(Comparison of Pericles with Fabius)
- With: Hannibal
- “yet Fabius let him slip in the night, and, when day came, was worsted by him”

with Pericles (Their military conduct is compared.) “But no action of Pericles can be compared to that memorable rescue of Minucius, when Fabius redeemed both him and his army from utter destruction; a noble act, combining the highest valor, wisdom, and humanity.”
with Minucius (Fabius rescued Minucius and his army.) “But no action of Pericles can be compared to that memorable rescue of Minucius, when Fabius redeemed both him and his army from utter destruction; a noble act, combining the highest valor, wisdom, and humanity.”
enemies with Hannibal (Hannibal is explicitly described as Fabius's enemy in the surrounding passage.) “On the other side, it does not appear that Pericles was ever so overreached as Fabius was by Hannibal with his flaming oxen.”
with Scipio (Fabius opposed or condemned Scipio's undertaking.) “But Fabius was not so good a prophet, when he denounced to the Romans that the undertaking of Scipio would be the destruction of the commonwealth.”

with Caius Gracchus (interaction) “his resolution about the corn which Fabius the propraetor sent from Spain, was very just and honorable; for he persuaded the senate to sell the corn, and return the money to the same provinces which had furnished them with it; and also that Fabius should be censured”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.