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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 21/
Fabius, however, was not buried by the Romans at the public charge, but each private citizen contributed the smallest coin in his possession, not because Fabius's poverty called for their aid, but because the people felt that they were burying a father, whose death thus received honour and regard befitting his life.
[Section 27]
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 21/
Fabius, however, was not buried by the Romans at the public charge, but each private citizen contributed the smallest coin in his possession, not because Fabius's poverty called for their aid, but because the people felt that they were burying a father, whose death thus received honour and regard befitting his life.
[Section 27]
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 20/
The son of Fabius, as it happened, died, and this affliction Fabius bore with equanimity, like a wise man and a good father.
[Section 24]
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 20/
The son of Fabius, as it happened, died, and this affliction Fabius bore with equanimity, like a wise man and a good father.
[Section 24]
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 19/
Fabius thought it hard that, whereas the trainers of horses and dogs relied upon care and intimacy and feeding rather than on goads and heavy collars for the removal of the animal's obstinacy, anger, and discontent, the commander of men should not base the most of his discipline on kindness and gentleness, but show more harshness and violence in his treatment of them than farmers in their treatment of wild fig-trees, wild pear-trees, and wild olive-trees, which they reclaim and domesticate till they bear luscious olives, pears, and figs.
[Section 20]
#LeadingThroughKindness #MangageByAppreciation #AppreciativeInquiry
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 19/
Fabius thought it hard that, whereas the trainers of horses and dogs relied upon care and intimacy and feeding rather than on goads and heavy collars for the removal of the animal's obstinacy, anger, and discontent, the commander of men should not base the most of his discipline on kindness and gentleness, but show more harshness and violence in his treatment of them than farmers in their treatment of wild fig-trees, wild pear-trees, and wild olive-trees, which they reclaim and domesticate till they bear luscious olives, pears, and figs.
[Section 20]
#LeadingThroughKindness #MangageByAppreciation #AppreciativeInquiry
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 18/
Fabius thought that the revolts of the cities and the agitations of the allies ought to be restrained and discountenanced by mild and gentle measures, without testing every suspicion and without showing harshness in every case to be suspected.
When Fabius learned about a Marsian soldier, eminent among the allies for valour and high birth, who had been talking with some of the soldiers in the camp about deserting to the enemy, Fabius was not incensed with him, but admitted frankly that he had been unduly neglected; so far, he said, this was the fault of the commanders, who distributed their honours by favour rather than for valour, but in the future it would be the man's own fault if he did not come to him and tell him when he wanted anything.
These words were followed by the gift of a warhorse and by other signal rewards for bravery, and from that time on there was no more faithful and zealous man in the service.
[Section 20]
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#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/
It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]
This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.
[Section 1]
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html
#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs -
#Plutarch #ParallelLives #FabiusMaximus 1/
It was a nymph, they say, or a woman native to the country, according to others, who consorted with Hercules by the river Tiber, and became by him the mother of Fabius, the founder of the family of the Fabii, which was a large one, and of high repute in Rome. [...]
This family produced many great men, and from Rullus, the greatest of them, and on this account called Maximus by the Romans, the Fabius Maximus of whom we now write was fourth in descent.
[Section 1]
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html
#nymphs #WhenOurLeadersCameFromGodsAndNymphs