The Civil and Constitutional History of Rome (Volume 1); From Its Foundation to the Age of Augustus - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150308397 ISBN 13: 9781150308390

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: ... seventeen hundred of the enemy fell, in-%? creased his confidence and presumption. It was a time, of all others, when the system of Fabius ought to have been followed: Hannibal was so straitened for provisions as not to have subsistence for ten days, and the Spaniards were reported to be upon the point of leaving him. At Cannae, on the banks of the Aufidus, the obstinacy and imprudence of Terentius exposed the Romans to an overthrow, which nothing but the radical strength drawn from their government, the firmness and ability of two or three eminent men, and above all the unaccountable irresolution and delay of the great Hannibal, in the hour of his glory and triumph, could have enabled them to recover. Forty three thousand Romans were left dead upon the field, and amongst them the consul iEmilius, twenty military tribunes, and eighty senators. The surviving consul fled to Canusium with only seventy horse. 276 BATTLE OF CANNJE. chap. x. When the news reached the city, they bore up against this dreadful disaster with a very different spirit from that which their ancestors had shown, a hundred and seventy one years before, upon occasion of the much lighter defeat at A Ilia: there was no panic, no despondency, nor any mean attempt to excuse the general failure by throwing the whole blame upon the immediate author of it; so far from impeaching or censuring Terentius, when he returned with a larger force collected at Canusium than was supposed to have survived the battle, the whole senate, with Fabius at their head, and all orders of men went out in a body to meet him, and publicly thanked him, because he had not despaired of the commonwealth. That domestic affliction and lamentation should not engross and distract their thoughts from all solicitude for the pub...

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