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Quintus Fabius Maximus
Quintus Maximus
also: Q. Maximus
Quintus Fabius Maximus, named with Scipio among the great ancestral exemplars; gazing on such men's ancestral masks was said to kindle Romans to virtue.
Reading notes
- The Jugurthine War §4 Quintus Maximus
Quintus Fabius Maximus, named with Scipio as a model of ancestral virtue; Romans kept wax masks (imagines) of office-holding forebears and gazed on them as spurs to glory.