Talk:Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

message: My man! --The Cunctator
:hmpf! Now let's see you take your man beyond a three-word stub <g> - clasqm
There is a reason I chose that name. --TheCunctator
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Visigoth invasion?????????? KF 11:32 27 May 2003 (UTC)
"Fabius was well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians"
this isn't true - the Romans actually had a much superior military, it was simply that *Hannibal was too good. On equal ground the romans would have won, but hannibal chose the scenario every time. Change.
panthers
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The article mentions that even though Fabius Maximus was part of the delegation to Carthage in 218 BC, it was his kinsman Fabius Buteo that declared war. However, looking at the citation (Liv. Ab Urbe Cond. xxi. xviii) along with the account by Cassius Dio (Zonaras 8, 22) it looks to me as though Fabius Maximus was the one who declared war. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could clear this up for me? Am I missing something or was it actually Fabius Maximus who declared war? Ltmboy (talk) 00:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I would say that there are references, but no in-line citations. References can be improved. wikibiohistory (talk) 18:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced?

message: "Plutarch isn't sure exactly how Fabius came up with this number, although he believes it was to honor of the perfection of the number three, as it is the first of the odd numbers..."
When did three become the first odd number?  Where I come from, one is the first odd number. Hmmmmmm...
Rsercher (talk) 20:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 3 is the first odd number?

message: How is Plutarch, writing biography in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. a "primary" source for the war with Hannibal and Fabius Cunctator's part in it, and both Livy writing in the 1st century B.C. and Polybius writing in the 2nd century B.C. (not even a century after these events), a "secondary" source?!  Plutarch would have probably used those two (plus others of course) as his source.
It seems to me someone read Plutarch and wrote this article up from that. As I am doing some work in this area as I get some time to improve this article and include a better selection of source material into it.
GermanicusCaesar (talk) 03:15, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Could someone please tell me how I can include a picture of a portrait bust of the Fabius Maximus from the Hannibalic War.  It's from a public library book on history and can be footnoted.  I've never seen this picture anywhere on the internet so I photographed it with my phone.  I think maybe no one has ever posted this picture from a book to the internet before.  It's a bust of him as an older man and looks like something that Fabius Maximus might have posed for in his lifetime.  The book looks like a legitimate source.  Thank you anyone who might read this. Charlesyanni (talk) 01:03, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's not a simple answer to this question.  If we knew more about the book and the photo in it, we might be able to determine the picture's copyright status (i.e. is it in the public domain), and whether better versions are already available.  Without that, we're guessing about whether we can add a picture of a picture, without being able to verify that it depicts the subject of the article (or is at least speculated to do so by experts).  Not to mention that a copy of a copy may not be very good for Wikipedia use.  What I suggest is that you identify the book more specifically: we need the full title, author, and the date of publication.  All of this should be printed on or near the title page.  The book might have a list of illustrations in the front, or a caption that identifies the image more clearly.  If nothing in the book tells us more—say, what museum the bust is in, or who discovered it, or any nickname given it—then maybe someone who can view the image will be able to find a match for it on Wikimedia Commons or the internet generally, and establish which bust it is, so that we can determine if there's a photo of it that can be used on Wikipedia.  So as a starting point, can you identify the book specifically?  If you no longer have it, you should be able to look it up in your library's online card catalogue, and post the title, author, and perhaps the publication date in a reply here.  Then maybe we can find out more about the image.  P Aculeius (talk) 01:33, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to add a picture of a portrait bust that purports to be of Quintus Fabius Maximus from the Hannibal's War from a library book. 

message: This article, along with several other articles about ancient Romans, was changed to use a different infobox, . In consequence, there's discussion about which infobox to use and how at Talk:Julius Caesar#Infobox and then at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome#Infoboxes for Roman office-holders as a more central location. NebY (talk) 19:51, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox