Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus (or Rullus ), son of Marcus, of the Roman patrician family of the Fabians, was five times consul and a commander in the Samnite wars.

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Its first mention in the documents obtained as Magister equitum in 325 BC, when he won a daring victory over the Samnites at Imbrinium. The attack took place without the consent of the Roman dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor, who was upset about this procedure and asked the Senate to punish Fabius for contempt of commands. Livy describes a tense scene, stood in the Papirius almost alone against the senate and people who supported Fabius due to his victory, but also did not want the absolute power that they had given Papirius undermined. Fabius finally ended the crisis by the dictator threw himself at the feet, begged for forgiveness and they also received.

Fabius was first consul in the year 322 BC, then reappears as a dictator in the year 315 BC, with a successful siege Saticulas, and then, less successfully, in the battle of Lautulae ( Diodorus Siculus mentions another dictatorship 313 v. AD, but is subject to a probable error). As consul in 310 BC Fabius fought at Sutrium against the Etruscans, pursued them as they fled into the forest Cimianischen, where he beat her again. Once again, consul in 308 BC, he suggested Perusia and Nuceria Terna. From 304 BC, he served as a censor.

Fabius was consul for the fourth time in the year 297 BC, when he defeated the Samnites in Tifernum by sending a portion of his forces in the rear of the enemy around a hill. 295 BC, he was unanimously (along with Publius Decius Mus) elected for a fifth term of office, in which he (now Sassoferrato ) earned lasting fame by the Battle of Sentinum, in which he proposed a coalition of Etruscans, Samnites and Gauls, .

Rullianus ' Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges son, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus his great-grandson, called Cunctator, the procrastinator of the Second Punic War.

Although Rullianus ' fame is no doubt resemble details of his life suspicious stories from the life Cunctators: the main source of his Vita is Livy, who operated from the annals of Quintus Fabius Pictor and others.