Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (died 265 BC), an otherwise obscure Roman consul in the year 265 BC, was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges

Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)

Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and a Consul in 292 and 276 BC.In 295 BC he was curule aedile, and fined certain matrons of noble birth for their disorderly life. With the proceeds of the fines built a temple to Venus near the Circus Maximus.He was...

 and father of the Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Fabius Maximus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator was a Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in Rome in 203 BC. He was Roman Consul five times and was twice Dictator in 221 and again in 217 BC. He reached the office of Roman Censor in 230 BC...

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Gurges was slain in his third consulship (265 BC), while engaged in quelling some disturbances at Vulsinii in Etruria.

His son, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Fabius Maximus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator was a Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in Rome in 203 BC. He was Roman Consul five times and was twice Dictator in 221 and again in 217 BC. He reached the office of Roman Censor in 230 BC...

, was elected consul several times, was censor, and was twice dictator

Roman dictator

In the Roman Republic, the dictator , was an extraordinary magistrate with the absolute authority to perform tasks beyond the authority of the ordinary magistrate . The office of dictator was a legal innovation originally named Magister Populi , i.e...

 in 221 and 217 BC.

He also had a daughter, whose daughter was married to Tiberius Otacilius Crassus and had children with him.