Fabian tactics

[ (fay-bee-uhn) ]

To “win like Fabius” or to win by “Fabian tactics” is to wear out an opponent by delay and evasion rather than confrontation, in the style of the ancient Roman general Fabius.

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Thus greatly outnumbered, Maceo wisely resorted not so much to guerrilla warfare as to what may be called Fabian tactics.
The History of Cuba, vol. 4 | Willis Fletcher Johnson
These Fabian tactics do not mean that the Sennussi are idle.
The New World of Islam | Lothrop Stoddard

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