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Cunctator

noun
1.
Someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness).  Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator.






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"Cunctator" Quotes from Famous Books



... gain the support of the Greek colonies. A dictator was appointed, Quintus Fabius Maximus, who saw that, by strengthening all the garrisons in the towns and cutting off all provisions, he should wear the enemy out at last. As he always put off a battle, he was called Cunctator, or the Delayer; but at last he had the Carthaginians enclosed as in a trap in the valley of the river Vulturnus, and hoped to cut them off, posting men in ambush to fall on them on their morning's march. Hannibal ...
— Young Folks' History of Rome • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... to be impressed by the strange changes through which this wonderful city has passed. The very spot on which Nero, the insane emperor-artist, fiddled while Rome was burning has now become a vast kitchen-garden, belonging to Prince Massimo, (himself a descendant, as he claims, of Fabius Cunctator,) where men no longer, but only lettuces, asparagus, and artichokes, are ruthlessly cut down. The inundations are not for mock sea-fights among slaves, but for the peaceful purposes of irrigation. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Cunctator" :   delayer



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