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Fa·bius (fā′bē əs)

(full name Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus) died 203 ; Rom. general & statesman: defeated Hannibal in the second Punic War by a cautious strategy of delay and avoidance of direct encounter: called Cunctator (the Delayer)

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