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Encyclopedia entry: Fabius Maximus Rullianus
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Fabius Maximus Rullianus (
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus
),
consul 322, 310, 308, 297, 295 BC. Surviving accounts of his career are obscured by factual uncertainties; patriotic and family fictions; supposed clashes with Lucius Papirius Cursor, Appius
Claudius Caecus
, and even Publius Decius Mus (his colleague in his last three consulships); and apparent duplicates of incidents from the career of Quintus
Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
(Cunctator). Thus his supposed clash with Lucius Papirius Cursor in 325 (Fabius Pictor fr. 18 P) apparently owes much to Cunctator's quarrel with Marcus Minucius Rufus in 217 and his role as his son's legate in 292 is modelled on actions of both ...
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