{
  "name": "Fabius and Minucius, 217 BC: where Polybius, Livy and Plutarch differ",
  "desc": "One claim per row from Polybius, Livy or Plutarch on the campaign of 217 BC, with the passage, any figure and unit as the text gives it, and this site's arithmetic on the ransom figures with its formula.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Treaties & Tradeoffs",
  "url": "https://treatiesandtradeoffs.com/patterns/fabian-strategy/",
  "from": [
    "Polybius, The Histories, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (London: Macmillan, 1889), book 3",
    "Livy, The History of Rome, trans. D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds, books 21–23",
    "Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Latin text ed. C. F. Walters and R. S. Conway (Oxford), books 22–23, wording and units only",
    "Plutarch, Lives, trans. John Dryden, revised by Arthur Hugh Clough, Life of Fabius and Comparison of Pericles with Fabius",
    "William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 12th ed. (London: John Murray, 1884), Table XI"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Treaties & Tradeoffs from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Polybius, The Histories, book 3, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1889), Project Gutenberg eBook #44125, accessed 2026-11-02, public domain; Livy, The History of Rome, books 21–23, trans. D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds, Project Gutenberg eBook #10907, accessed 2026-11-02, public domain; Livy, Latin text ed. C. F. Walters and R. S. Conway (Oxford), books 22–23, wording and units only, accessed 2026-11-02; Plutarch, Lives of Fabius and Pericles and their Comparison, trans. John Dryden, rev. Arthur Hugh Clough, Project Gutenberg eBook #674, accessed 2026-11-02, public domain; William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 12th ed. (1884), Table XI, Project Gutenberg eBook #65909, accessed 2026-11-02, public domain"
  ]
}