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

Quintus Fabius Pictor

fl. 216 BCE · dates approximate · identity secure receipt — the person layer

Rome's first historian: the senator sent to Delphi after Cannae, cited by Livy as the oldest authority and audited by Polybius for partiality.

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

Livy names him the oldest of Rome's historians. secure

Fabius Pictor. the oldest of our historians Liv. 1.44 The History of Rome · Livy

The served scan prints a full stop after 'Pictor' and an ideograph further on; the quote is cut short of the damage.

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

Polybius audits 'Fabius' the writer for partiality — the annalist, not the Delayer. conventional

Philinus and Fabius, who have the reputation of writing with the most complete knowledge about it, have given us an inadequate representation of the truth. Plb. 1.14 The Histories · Polybius

That Polybius' 'Fabius' is Pictor is the tradition's standard reading, adopted and labeled conventional. the other man: Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

After Cannae the senate sends him to the oracle at Delphi. secure

Q. Fabius Pictor was sent to consult the oracle of De]phi as to ,vhat forms of prayer and supplication they were to use to propitiate the gods Liv. 22.57 The History of Rome · Livy

The scan prints 'De]phi' — carried as it stands. the deed: battle of Cannae

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

The Republic's register awaits its lane; the row stands alignment-open. secure 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.

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

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus — c. 275–203 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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