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Cunctātor

“The delayer.” A nickname given to Q. Fabius Maximus (q.v.) because of his policy of delay in the Second Punic War.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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