"Cunctator"?

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus was a Roman politician and soldier, born in Rome around 275 BC and died in the same city in 203 BC.
He was known as Cunctator ("delayer" in Latin),due to his tactics during the Second Punic War.

His acts were transcribed by Plutarch is his Parallel Lives. Plutarch compared the tactics of Fabius, in the middle of the crisis in Rome, with the ones of Pericles, at the top of the apogee of the democratic Athens. I strongly recommend its lecture, it is definitively worthwhile.

After Rome had a major loss in the Lake Trasimene, where Gaius Flaminius was surprised by an ambush from Hannibal's army, the Senate decided to make Fabius dictator during six months, that meant giving him the absolute power.
Fabius decided not to oppose direct battle to Hannibal, which was a wise move. However, Rome did not agree and he was called several times coward and even traitor. To illustrate the discontent his right hand, the head of equites disobeyed him and went to attack Hannibal almost losing the Roman Army with him.

Six months later, the Senate elected Gaius Terentius Varro & Lucius Aemilius Paullus as consulae, who had the opposite strategy. The output was the disaster of Cannae.

I felt sometimes like being Fabius (with the obvious difference).
Trying to explain what is reasonable with arguments, but people prefer to listen to whom tells them what they wish to hear.
However, I decided not be a Cunctator, they are adults so they make the choices.