Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus (or Rullus) was a patrician, politician and soldier of the Roman Republic during the fourth and early third century BC.
The last Lustrum was shortened to speed up Rullianus taking up the office, because they wanted him overturn the reforms Appius Claudius Caecus had instituted during his censorship.
In 296 BC, as Lucius Volumnius and Appius Claudius Caecus were consuls, he and Publius Decius Mus were made proconsul and their imperium was prolonged by six months.
[4] In 295 BC he was elected unanimously for a fifth term, where he won lasting fame for defeating a coalition of Etruscans, Samnites, and Gauls in the epic Battle of Sentinum.
[6] Although Rullianus' fame is undoubted, the main source of his life is Livy, who in turn worked from annals by Fabius Pictor and others, and many of the details are suspiciously similar to stories of the Cunctator.