{"slug": "quintus-fabius-maximus-rullianus", "label": "Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Rullianus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435352", "qid": "Q435352", "description": "Roman consul in five times (322 - 310 - 308 - 297 - 295 BC)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-315, -290], "span_label": ["316 BCE", "291 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus"], "related": [{"slug": "samnites", "label": "Samnites", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-dictator", "label": "Roman dictator", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "samnium", "label": "Samnium", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lucius-postumius-megellus-consul-305-bc", "label": "Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 305 BC)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "apulia", "label": "Apulia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lucera", "label": "Lucera", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "etruscan-civilization", "label": "Etruscan civilization", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Romans, with an eye to capturing Apulia, send an army (led by dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus) to seize the town of Lucera from the Samnites. They are badly beaten in the Battle of Lautulae and the Samnites go on to reach within 32 kilometres of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Roman_Republic", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Samnites defeat a Roman army led by dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus at the Battle of Lautulae.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Roman_Republic", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rome deals with renewed trouble from the Etruscans, who are persuaded by the Samnites to cease their alliance with the Romans. In the Battle of Lake Vadimo, the Romans under Fabius Maximus Rullianus defeat the Etruscans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Roman_Republic", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus defeats an attempted ambush by the Samnite army in the Battle of Tifernum, killing 3400, capturing 830, and causing the army to flee. He then invades Samnium and storms the town of Cimetra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Roman_Republic", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -295, "year_label": "296 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The consul Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens and the proconsuls Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and Publius Decius Mus devastate the lands of Samnium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359921190#Roman_Republic", "title": "296 BC", "revid": 1359921190, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -294, "year_label": "295 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The consuls Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and Publius Decius Mus march to Sentinum in Umbria. Facing a coalition army of Samnites, Semnones, Etruscans and Umbrians, they order the propraetors Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus and Lucius Postumius Megellus, who were initially tasked with defending Rome, to raid Etruria as far as Clusium. This provokes the Etruscans to march to their homeland's defence, taking the Umbrians with them. In the subsequent Battle of Sentinum against the Samnites and Semnones, Decius is killed in an act of Devotio, and Fabius wins the battle. Gellius Egnatius, the mastermind behind the coalition, is cut down in the fighting, along with 25,000 Samnites and Semnones killed and 8000 captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129451#Roman_Republic", "title": "295 BC", "revid": 1350129451, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -291, "year_label": "292 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Samnites reappoint Gavius Pontius, the victor of the Battle of Caudine Forks, as general, and in Campania he defeats the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges. However, Fabius is joined by his father, Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, as legate and de facto general, and they defeat Pontius in battle and capture the general and his camp. They then capture several towns of the Pentri, a prominent tribe of the Samnites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367905067#Roman_Republic", "title": "292 BC", "revid": 1367905067, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -290, "year_label": "291 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The proconsul Q. Fabius Maximus Gurges and legate Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus besiege the Samnite town of Cominium Ocritum, but the consul Lucius Postumius Megellus orders Fabius Gurges to relinquish his command and evacuate Samnium, despite the fact that the Senate had appointed Fabius proconsul to campaign against the Samnites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1115795236#Roman_Republic", "title": "291 BC", "revid": 1115795236, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}