Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 213 BC)
Quintus Fabius Maximus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 213 BC. He was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the famous dictator who invented Fabian strategy, and served with his father during the Second Punic War.
The younger Fabius was a
curule aedile.[2] As praetor in 214, he commanded two legions with which he captured Acuca in Luceria as well as a fortified camp near Ardoneae.[3]
As consul for the following year, he took over his father's command of the army in
Venusia.[7] He may have been the envoy of the consul Marcus Livius Salinator in 207 who reported to the senate that it was safe to withdraw the consular army from Cisalpine Gaul.[8]
References
- T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 251. Unless otherwise noted, citations of ancient sources are those of Broughton.
- ^ Livy 24.9.4; Broughton, MRR1, p. 255.
- ^ Livy, 24.11.2, 12.6, 20.8; Broughton, MRR1, p. 259
- Claudius Quadrigarius frg. 57 in the edition of Peter; Valerius Maximus 2.2.4; Frontinus, Stratagems 3.9.2; Plutarch, Life of Fabius Maximus 24; Appian, Hannibalic War 31; Broughton, MRR1, pp. 262–263.
- ^ Silius Italicus 12.479–482; Broughton, MRR1, p. 272, note 8.
- proroguedout of military necessity into the following year. Livy 27.8.13; Broughton, MRR1, pp. 280, 287, 288.
- ^ Livy 27.29.1–4; Broughton, MRR1, p. 292.
- ^ The identity of this envoy is not secure. Livy 28.9.1–2; Broughton, MRR1, pp. 297, 298 note 4.