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After the misfortune which befell the State at Cannae 1 he was chosen consul with Claudius Mar [p. 161] cellus, a man possessed of daring and spoiling for a figbt with Hannibal. Fabius hoped, if nobody fought with Hannibal, that Hannibal's forces, being under continual strain, would soon give out. Wherefore Hannibal said that he had more to fear from Fabius who would not fight than from Marcellus who would. 2

1 In 216 B.C.

2 Plutarch's Life of Fabius Maximus, chap. xix. (185 A-C).

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