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Cunctator, a name given to Fabius Maximus on account of the tantalising tactics he adopted to wear out his adversary Hannibal.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cunctator in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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Fabius Maximus, Quintus, Surnamed Verrucosus And Cunctator