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FABIUS PICTOR, QUINTUS

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 114 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FABIUS PICTOR, QUINTUS , the father of Roman history, was born about 2S4 B.C. He was the grandson of Gaius Fabius, who received the surname Pictor for his painting of the temple of Salus (302). He took an active part in the subjugation of the Gauls in the north of Italy (225), and after the battle of
Cannae
  (216) was employed by the Romans to proceed to Delphi in order to consult the oracle of Apollo. He was the earliest
prose
  writer of Roman history. His materials consisted of the Annales Maximi, Commentarii Consulares, and similar records; the chronicles of the
great
  Roman families; and his own experiences in the Second Punic War. He is also said to have made much use of the Greek historian Diocles of Peparethus. His
work
 , which was written in Greek, began with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy, and ended with the Hannibalic war. Although
Polybius
  and
Dionysius
  of
Halicarnassus
  frequently find fault with him, the first uses him as his
chief
  authority for the Second Punic War. A Latin version of the
work
  was in existence in the time of Cicero, but it is doubtful whether it was by Fabius Pictor or by a later writer with whom he was confusedQ. Fabius Maximus Servilianus (
consul
  142) ; or there may have been two annalists of the name of Fabius Pictor.
Fragments in H. Peter, Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (1883) ; see also ANNALISTS and Livy, and Teuffel-Schwabe, History of Roman Literature, 116.


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