{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg013.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg013.local001","title":"Φάβιος Μάξιμος","titleGreek":"Φάβιος Μάξιμος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1916","volume":"3","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/liveswithenglish03plutuoft/page/118/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. 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Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1916. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg013.local001","excerpt":"τοιούτου δὲ τοῦ Περικλέους ἐν τοῖς ἀξίοις μνήμης γεγονότος, ὡς παρειλήφαμεν, ἐπὶ τὸν Φάβιον τὴν ἱστορίαν μεταγάγωμεν. νυμφῶν μιᾶς λέγουσιν, οἱ δὲ γυναικὸς ἐπιχωρίας, Ἡρακλεῖ μιγείσης περὶ τὸν Θύμβριν ποταμὸν γενέσθαι Φάβιον, ἄνδρα πολὺ καὶ δόκιμον ἐν Ῥώμῃ τὸ Φαβίων γένος ἀφʼ αὐτοῦ παρασχόντα, τινὲς δὲ τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ γένους τούτου πρώτους τῇ διʼ ὀρυγμάτων χρησαμένους ἄγρᾳ Φοδίους ἱστοροῦσιν ὀνομάζεσθαι τὸ παλαιόν οὕτω γὰρ ἄχρι νῦν αἱ διώρυχες φόσσαι καὶ φόδερε τὸ σκάψαι καλεῖται· χρόνῳ δὲ τῶν δυεῖν φθόγγων μεταπεσόντων Φάβιοι προσηγορεύθησαν. πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ μεγάλους τῆς οἰκίας ἐξενεγκαμένης ἄνδρας, ἀπὸ Ῥούλλου τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Μαξίμου παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἐπονομασθέντος τέταρτος ἦν Φάβιος Μάξιμος, περὶ οὗ τάδε γράφομεν. ἦν δʼ αὐτῷ σωματικὸν μὲν παρωνύμιον ὁ Βερρούκωσος· εἶχε γὰρ ἀκροχορδόνα μικρὰν ἐπάνω τοῦ χείλους ἐπιπεφυκυῖαν ὁ δὲ Ὀουικούλας σημαίνει μὲν τὸ προβάτων, ἐτέθη δὲ πρὸς…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/#tlg0007-tlg013-local001-27"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg013.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg013/local001.json.gz"}}