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George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Quintus Fabius Maximus were born so long ago that they were not able to get to the meeting. But hundreds of other Fabians crowded solemnly into Albert...
...Fabian Society had really been founded 62 years ago, but, because of the war, it delayed the celebration. The postponement was in character; Fabius Cunctator (The Delayer) had worn out Hannibal in the Second Punic War* by what Livy called "masterly inactivity." The earnest young men & women of the 1880s who believed that socialism (not the Marxist brand) would come with what Webb called the "inevitability of gradualness" took Fabius as their exemplar. They considered violent revolution unnecessary, believed their Utopia could be achieved by "permeating" existing institutions...
...little battle established Washington, once dubbed a Fabius Cunctator, as a general of brilliant resource. Said Frederick the Great (an expert with the rhetorical long bow): these "achievements were the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military science." The Revolution went on to its ordained...
...Named after Fabius Cunctator ("the delayer," from his cautious tactics in the war against Hannibal...
...this plan of war Fabius won the nickname Cunctator, the Delayer. It was just possible that Mussolini hoped, by sacrificing men and territory as slowly as possible, that he might postpone a major reckoning in Africa until such time as the Axis was ready to deal Britain a major blow-when Africa would not matter any more...