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Benjamin said, "Better than any soldier since Quintus Fabius Maximus, he deserves the title Cunctator, but Fabius" delaying tactics served his own state, while those of McClellan aided only us.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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His apparent inaction was displeasing to a large party, and he was called Cunctator
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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He continued to ravage Apulia and Campania without being able to involve the dictator Quintus Fabius, called Cunctator for his tactics of delay, in anything but minor skirmishes.
unknown title 2009
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He continued to ravage Apulia and Campania without being able to involve the dictator Quintus Fabius, called Cunctator for his tactics of delay, in anything but minor skirmishes.
unknown title 2009
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"Cunctator," which the epigram [3] of Ennius has immortalised in his honour.
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But: (1) Fabian as in Fabius "Cunctator" and the subset of war by attrition by suckering
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But: (1) Fabian as in Fabius "Cunctator" and the subset of war by attrition by suckering
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But: (1) Fabian as in Fabius "Cunctator" and the subset of war by attrition by suckering
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One elderly and probably senile Byzantine emperor who would neither abdicate in favor of his highly regarded heir nor just conveniently die was nicknamed Felix Cunctator.
Word Fugitives 2008
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One elderly and probably senile Byzantine emperor who would neither abdicate in favor of his highly regarded heir nor just conveniently die was nicknamed Felix Cunctator.
Word Fugitives 2008
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