Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wannan dabarar ta samo sunanta daga Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, mai mulkin kama karya na Jamhuriyar Roman wanda aka ba shi aikin kayar da babban janar na Carthage Hannibal a kudancin Italiya a lokacin Yaƙin Punic na Biyu (218 <unk> 201 BC). A farkon yakin, Hannibal da gaba gaɗi ya ƙetare Alps kuma ya mamaye Italiya. A wani bangare saboda kwarewar Hannibal a matsayinsa na janar, ya ci gaba da haifar da asarar rayuka ga Romawa - da sauri ya sami nasarori biyu a kan Romawa a Yaƙin Trebia
da kuma yakin Lake Trasimene. Bayan waɗannan bala'i, Romawa suka naɗa Fabius Maximus ya zama mai mulkin kama karya. Fabius Maximus sannan ya fara yakin basasa, ya yi yaƙi ta hanyar rikice-rikice na yau da kullun, yana iyakance ikon Carthaginians don neman abinci.