Fabius, The surname of a noble house of the Romaines, which had first that name of soming or selling of beanes, as Cicero, of the graine talled Ciler, Piso, of peason, Porcius, of sinine. Of this name were diuerse daliaunt captaines, and wise counsaylours: of whom, one was called Fabius Maximus. who in his youth exercised both eloquence and prowesse: and therefore he after became, as wel in armes as in counsel, a captaine moste excellente: and subduing many countries to the Romaines, be triumphed fiue times. Being made Dirtatour against Annibal, hee so temperes prndence with manhode or prowesse, that by detracting of battaile, and trayning Annibal from place to place, and at sundrie aduaÛtages skirmishing with him, he minished his puissaunce, and preierued the publike weale of his country, where Minutius (enuying him) in fighting with Anniball was vanquished, and had bene slaine with al his armie had not Fabins come to his succour and resces, who deliuered his aduersarie and all his traine and caused Annival to retire: who said then to his hoste: Did not I tell you before that this cloude would at the last bring vs a storme ? talling Fabins a cloude, bicause of his hauering on the hils. This man was before the incarnation of Christ, 200, yeares and somewhat more.Fabius Quintilianus, Read after in Quintilianus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Făbĭus, a, the name of a Roman gens, concerning which see Liv. 2, 48-50; among its distinguished members were, 1. Fabius Pictor, a historian, Cic. de Or. 2, 12.—2. Q. Fabius Maximus Cunctator, the famous dictator in the second Punic war, Prop. 3, 3, 9; Liv. 22passim.—3. M. Fabius Quintilianus, author of the rhetorical work Institutiones Oratoriae, Aus. Prof. 1, 7; Mart. 2, 90. —4. Paulus Fabius Persicus, consul under Tiberius, A.U.C. 786, Sen. Ben. 2, 21, 4; Juv. 8, 14.—II. Hence, A. Făbĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fabius, Fabian: lex, de ambitu and de plagiariis, Cic. Mur. 34, 71; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; Dig. 48, tit. 15; ib. 17, 2, 51: fornix, a triumphal arch, built by Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus on the Sacra Via, in the neighborhood of the Regia, Cic. Planc. 7, 17; called also Fornix Fabii, id. de Or. 2, 66, 267; and Fornix Fabianus, v. under B.: lupercus, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 26; cf. under B.: tribus,
one of the rural tribes
, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 52.—B. Făbĭānus, a, um, adj., the same: fornix, i. q. Fabius fornix (v. above), Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 19; also called arcus, Sen. Const. Sap. 1: Fabianae artes, i. e.
delay
, Liv. 22, 34: Fabiani et Quintilian appellabantur luperci, a Fabio et Quintilio praepositis suis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 87 Müll. —Subst.: Făbĭāni, ōrum, m., persons of the Fabian tribe, Suet. Aug. 40; also the soldiers of Fabius, Nep. Iphicr. 2, 4.