Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

c. 275–203 BCE · dates conventional · identity secure receipt — the person layer

The Delayer: dictator after Trasimene, whose caution wore Hannibal down — the man the curated 'fabius' drawer names, though the drawer holds his whole gens.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

Plutarch opens with the surnames: Verrucosus from a wart, Ovicula from his lamb-quiet boyhood. secure

He had the surname of Verrucosus from a physical peculiarity, namely, a small wart growing above his lip and that of Ovicula, which signifies Lambkin, was given him because of the gentleness and gravity of his nature when he was yet a child. Plut. Fabius Maximus 1 Fabius Maximus · Plutarch

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

The curated drawer wears his name but holds his gens. secure figure:fabius is curated to MAXIMUS FABIUS (Smith II 991) and its 312 mentions are dominated by the Delayer — but Livy's other Fabii attach to the same slug (the W9 lane said so at pour time), and the annalist Fabius Pictor is another man entirely. the other man: Quintus Fabius Pictor

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

After Trasimene, Rome makes him dictator; his delays become the strategy. secure

this course was adopted, and Fabius was appointed dictator. He himself appointed Marcus Minucius to be his Master of Horse, and then at once asked permission of the senate to use a horse himself when in the field. Plut. Fabius Maximus 4 Fabius Maximus · Plutarch

the deed: battle of Lake Trasimene

The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted

Smith's MAXIMUS FABIUS pages: Cunctator, from his caution in war. secure

Q. Fabius Q. f. Q. n. Maximus, with the agnomens Verrucosus, from a wart on his upper lip, OvicuLA, or the Lamb, from the mildness or comp. Varr. apathy of his temper (Plut. Fab. 1 R. R. ii. 1), and Cunctator, from his caution in war, grandson of Fabius Gurges, Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 993 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The Republic's digital register (DPRR, the Broughton-backed graph at romanrepublic.ac.uk) is the alignment authority this row awaits; its license could not be verified in writing when this wave was curated, so the dprr_uri column stands reserved and empty — an identity convention, not an ingested claim. Smith's Dictionary stands referee meanwhile, page-anchored. Smith's two-column page interleaves in the scan's layout stream; the excerpt follows the raw column order, the Wave D column law.

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

his name's drawer, shared with his homonyms — the counts belong to the name, not the man. Fabius, the figure — 312 mentions across 157 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘fabius’; the desk keeps them apart

Quintus Fabius Pictor — fl. 216 BCE Fabius Rusticus — fl. under Nero

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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