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FABIUS PICTOR, QUINTUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FABIUS PICTOR, See also:QUINTUS , the See also:father of See also:Roman See also:history, was See also:born about 2S4 B.C. He was the See also:grandson of See also:Gaius Fabius, who received the surname Pictor for his See also:painting of the See also:temple of See also:Salus (302). He took an active See also:part in the subjugation of the Gauls in the See also:north of See also:Italy (225), and after the See also:battle of See also:Cannae (216) was employed by the See also:Romans to proceed to See also:Delphi in See also:order to consult the See also:oracle of See also:Apollo. He was the earliest See also:prose writer of Roman history. His materials consisted of the Annales Maximi, See also:Commentarii Consulares, and similar records; the See also:chronicles of the See also:great Roman families; and his own experiences in the Second Punic See also:War. He is also said to have made much use of the See also:Greek historian Diocles of Peparethus. His See also:work, which was written in Greek, began with the arrival of See also:Aeneas in Italy, and ended with the Hannibalic war. Although See also:Polybius and See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus frequently find See also:fault with him, the first uses him as his See also:chief authority for the Second Punic War. A Latin version of the work was in existence in the See also:time of See also:Cicero, but it is doubtful whether it was by Fabius Pictor or by a later writer with whom he was confused—Q. Fabius See also:Maximus Servilianus (See also:consul 142) ; or there may have been two See also:annalists of the name of Fabius Pictor. Fragments in H. See also:Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (1883) ; see also ANNALISTS and See also:Livy, and See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, History of Roman Literature, § 116.

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