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In addition to the pleasure of reading these lovely prose passages, I learnt a new word: cunctation. Seems it’s a near synonym to procrastination, defined as th
by Veen 4y ago
In addition to the pleasure of reading these lovely prose passages, I learnt a new word: cunctation. Seems it’s a near synonym to procrastination, defined as the act of delaying or putting off doing something.
- Aidevah 4y ago"Cunctator" or "the delayer" was of course, the sobriquet given to the famous dictator and consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, whose eponymous strategy helped to fend off Hannibal from Rome.