Fabius Pictor, Quintus

A member of the Senate, he fought against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War (218 - 201) and was sent on a mission to the Oracle of Delphi after the disastrous Roman defeat at Cannae (216). His history, now lost, was an account of the development of Rome from the earliest times. Fabius wrote it in Greek, partly because he sought to justify Roman