His first military success drove the Ligurians into the Alps, while his las
His first military success drove the Ligurians into the Alps, while his last was the capture of Tarentum.  His opponents, such as the people's tribune Metilius, denounced his prisoner-exchange scheme and promoted his deputy, Minucius Rufus, Master of the Horse, to command the first and fourth legions. Although he then saved Minucius from ambush, his policies proved unpopular and were abandoned under Terentius Varro and Aemilius Paullus.  He later opposed the invasion of Africa by his most prominent political and military rival.  FTP, name this Roman general nicknamed "the delayer," the namesake of a gradualist form of socialism.
His first military success drove the Ligurians into the Alps, while his last was the capture of Tarentum.  
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator