Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plutarch, Fabius, 5.6
nan When his friends reported this to Fabius, and advised him to do away with the opprobrium by risking battle, In that case, surely, said he, I should be a greater coward than I am now held to be, if through fear of abusive jests I should abandon my fixed plans. And verily the fear which one exercises in behalf of his country is not shameful; but to be frightened from one’s course by the opinions of men, and by their slanderous censures, that marks a man unworthy of so high an office as this, who makes himself the slave of the fools over whom he is in duty bound to be lord and master.
nan When his friends reported this to Fabius, and advised him to do away with the opprobrium by risking battle, In that case, surely, said he,I should be a greater coward than I am now held to be, if through fear of abusive jests I should abandon my fixed plans. And verily the fear which one exercises in behalf of his country is not shameful; but to be frightened from one’s course by the opinions of men, and by their slanderous censures, that marks a man unworthy of so high an office as this, who makes himself the slave of the fools over whom he is in duty bound to be lord and master.

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auspicato,repetition of	Konrad (2022) 26
dictator	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius maximus rullianus,q.,papirius cursor,dispute with	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius maximus rullianus,q.,tradition of victory	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius maximus verrucosus,q.,auspices,repeated/upheld by	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius maximus verrucosus,q.,magister equitum,conflict with	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius maximus verrucosus,q.,recalled to rome sacrorum causa	Konrad (2022) 26
fabius pictor,q.,common source for fabius maximus-minucius rufus dispute	Konrad (2022) 26
geganius macerinus,m.,gereonium,battle of	Konrad (2022) 26
hannibal barqa	Konrad (2022) 26
imperium,of dictator	Konrad (2022) 26
imperium,of magister equitum	Konrad (2022) 26
livy,and fabius maximus-minucius rufus dispute	Konrad (2022) 26
livy,and fabius rullianus-papirius cursor dispute	Konrad (2022) 26
magister equitum,army,command of	Konrad (2022) 26
magister equitum,imperium of,made equal to dictators	Konrad (2022) 26
magister equitum	Konrad (2022) 26
metilius,m.	Konrad (2022) 26
minucius rufus,m.,dictator,conflict with	Konrad (2022) 26
minucius rufus,m.,imperium made equal to dictators	Konrad (2022) 26
papirius cursor,l.,fabius rullianus,dispute with	Konrad (2022) 26
plebiscite	Konrad (2022) 26
polybios of megalopolis,and fabius maximus-minucius rufus dispute	Konrad (2022) 26
punic wars,second	Konrad (2022) 26
sacra'	Konrad (2022) 26