Quintus Fabius Maximus Rulliānus

Fabius Maximus Rulliānus, Quintus (or Fabius Maximus Rullus, Quintus), a famous Roman general of the Samnite wars, five or six times consul, dictator in 315 BC and perhaps again in 313, censor in 304. He celebrated triumphs over Samnites, Etruscans, and Gauls. Livy's account of his numerous exploits in books 8–11, based on Fabius Pictor and the later annalists, is untrustworthy and introduces incidents from the life of his great-grandson, Fabius Cunctator (see below). When consul for the fifth time in 295 he and his colleague P. Decius Mus defeated an alliance of Samnites, Gauls, and others at Sentinum (Sassoferrato) in the decisive battle for the supremacy of Italy.

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