09-19-2022, 06:32 PM
(09-19-2022, 06:10 PM)Renatus Wrote: I am doubtful of Suetonius adopting Fabian tactics.
Whether he consciously did or not, I think Tacitus is at least implying he did.
This could be nothing more than Tacitus trying to cast a potentially embarrassing period of hesitation in the best possible light. But there must have been a resemblance to a strategy there for the implication to have any force.
Nathan Ross