Fabius Quotes
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Fabius Verrucosus beneficium ab homine duro aspere datum, panem lapidosum vocabat.
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When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the populace.
— Book 1, Ch. 53 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
Fabius Verrucosus beneficium ab homine duro aspere datum, panem lapidosum vocabat.
— Fabius Verrucosus called a favor roughly bestowed by a hard man, bread made of stone.
— Seneca, De Beneficiis, II. 7.
