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Often appears with: quintus fabius maximus speech · hannibal rivalry · elections and representation · counsel and advisers to rulers · campus martius · battle and tactics
Usually: speech or oration (1) · exhortation (1)
“But since during the present war, and with the enemy we have now to encounter, none of our generals has ever committed an error which has not been attended with most disastrous consequences to us, it behoves you to use the same circumspection in giving your suffrages for the creation of consuls” Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 · precept
At Rome’s consul election amid the Punic War, Quintus Fabius Maximus urges careful selection to face Hannibal and frames the decision using past cavalry duels and storm-sea piloting metaphors.
fallen by lot on the junior century of the Anien tribe, they appointed Titus Otacilius and Marcus Aemilius Regillus, consuls, when Quintus Fabius, having obtained silence, delivered the following speech: 8. "If we had either peace in Italy, or had war with such an enemy that the necessity to be careful was less urgent than it is, I should consider that man as wanting in respect for your liberty, who would at all imp…