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fabius

n. (given name male from=Latin), of historical use in English.

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Fabius, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 355
Housing Units (2000): 137
Land area (2000): 0.400842 sq. miles (1.038176 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.400842 sq. miles (1.038176 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24867
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.835551 N, 75.985150 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13063
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Fabius (disambiguation)

Fabius was a Roman family name, the nomen of the gens Fabia.

Fabius may also refer to:

Fabius (horse)

Fabius (foaled April 6, 1953) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career that lasted from 1955 through 1957, he ran sixty-two times and won eighteen races. He is best known for his performances in the 1956 Triple Crown: after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby. he won the Preakness Stakes and finished third in the Belmont Stakes.

Usage examples of "fabius".

Left behind with the Seventh, Fabius had already stripped the defenses of a camp big enough to contain eight legions and re-erected them around a camp which could be comfortably held by one legion.

Marcus Crassus was massacred nearby, Titus Labienus is under siege, Quintus Cicero and the Ninth Legion are dead, and Lucius Fabius and Lucius Roscius have withdrawn to Tolosa in the Roman Province.

Eleventh heard that it was to winter with Labienus its men groaned, then resolved to be good boys and hoped that the following winter would see it with Fabius or Trebonius, strict commanders yet not unmerciful.

But the moment Litaviccus clattered off, he went to find Quintus Cicero, Gaius Fabius and Titus Sextius.

Cicero and Sextius were commanding legions among the six encamped around Agedincum, whereas Fabius held the two legions billeted with the Lingones, fifty miles closer to the Aedui.

I gather Fabius sent two legionaries who ride like the wind, loaded them with money and official pieces of paper.

Pleading a suddenly unsanitary camp site, Fabius has picked himself and his two legions up and moved to a new camp site not far from Bibracte, on the Icauna near its sources, in case you need to know.

Agedincum with Fabius and his two legions before Decimus Brutus and the Fifteenth got there.

Caesar took the hill between midnight and dawn, put Gaius Fabius and two legions in a strongly fortified camp there, and extended its fortifications to join those of his main camp by means of a great double ditch.

General that both camps were under fierce attack, but that Fabius was managing to hold them.

With Labienus, Trebonius, Quintus Cicero, Fabius, Sextius, Hirtius, Decimus Brutus, Mark Antony and several other legates, it marched with everything it owned eastward from Agedincum into the lands of the ever-loyal Lingones.

Trebonius, Fabius, Sextius, Quintus, Decimus, be prepared to move like lightning.

Trebonius, Fabius, Sextius, Quintus Cicero, Sulpicius, Antistius and Rebilus were clad in their best armor, Attic helmets under their left arms.

Gaius Fabius was given the Twelfth and the Sixth and sent to garrison Suessionum on the Matroma River, dividing the lands of the Remi from those of the Suessiones.

Rebilus nor Fabius had thought to see him there in person, but they seized him eagerly.