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Majd il-Romani
07-29-2008, 06:07
I am writing a story and it takes place around 220-200 BC which is the time that the Roman's Fabius Maximus fought against Hannibal. my main character befriends a Fabius Maximus and I want to know the Dictator FM's first name (like Gaius or Kaeso) so I dont use his name. If possible could I know the name of his son?
Lysimachos
07-29-2008, 06:24
I am writing a story and it takes place around 220-200 BC which is the time that the Roman's Fabius Maximus fought against Hannibal. my main character befriends a Fabius Maximus and I want to know the Dictator FM's first name (like Gaius or Kaeso) so I dont use his name. If possible could I know the name of his son?

His name was Quintus, iirc.
Majd il-Romani
07-29-2008, 06:33
OK thanks
konny
07-29-2008, 10:40
His name was Quintus, iirc.

What was the name Fabius Maximus too (and his father, and his grandfather,...)
Gaivs
07-29-2008, 10:40
Thats not an Arabic military maxim. Wasnt that Alexander, or Caesar? "Id rather fight an army of lions led by a sheep than fight an army of sheep led by a lion"
Majd il-Romani
07-29-2008, 16:02
hey I dunno, I saw it on one of EB's loading screens.
TWFanatic
07-29-2008, 16:24
His name was Quintus, iirc.
Quite so.

His second cognomen was of course "Cunctator"--"the Delayer."
konny
07-29-2008, 17:53
Quite so.

His second cognomen was of course "Cunctator"--"the Delayer."

To be over-exact "Cuntator" was his third cognomen, his second was "Verrucosus"
TWFanatic
07-29-2008, 18:02
To be over-exact "Cuntator" was his third cognomen, his second was "Verrucosus"

Wow I've never heard this before. What was "Verrucosus" for?
Maeran
07-29-2008, 19:15
Someone who actually speaks Latin may have to confirm this, but I believe it means 'warty'.
konny
07-29-2008, 19:28
Correct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Maximus
Lysimachos
07-29-2008, 19:58
Actually, i think those are agnomina, while his cognomen - which earlier had the same function as an agnomen then - is Maximus :)

Edit: Well, could of course be that this terminology wasn't yet established in those days...
Majd il-Romani
07-30-2008, 18:51
OK one more question, was the Aurelian family a plebian family or a patrician family?

ps EB has really helped me withthe story and its realism. great job guys!
danielc
07-30-2008, 20:22
OK one more question, was the Aurelian family a plebian family or a patrician family?

ps EB has really helped me withthe story and its realism. great job guys!

I think Plebeian. Only the plebs could run for Tribune of the Plebs, and there's an historic record of a Gaius Aurelius Cotta running for that position and losing.
Majd il-Romani
07-30-2008, 20:49
OK thanks a million