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Hannibal Occupies Cannae
Thus through all that winter and spring the two
Autumn, B. C. 216.
armies remained encamped facing each other.
But when the season for the new harvest
was come, Hannibal began to move from the
camp at Geronium; and making up his mind that it would
be to his advantage to force the enemy by any possible
means to give him battle, he occupied the citadel of a town
called Cannae, into which the corn and other supplies from
the district round Canusium were collected by the Romans,
and conveyed thence to the camp as occasion required.
The town itself, indeed, had been reduced to ruins the year
before: but the capture of its citadel and the material of war
contained in it, caused great commotion in the Roman army;
for it was not only the loss of the place and the stores in it
that distressed them, but the fact also that it commanded the
surrounding district. They therefore sent frequent messages
to Rome asking for instructions: for if they approached the
enemy they wo
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, He describes a certain journey of his from Rome
to Brundusium with great pleasantry. (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OF THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 24 (search)
Pompey, having intelligence of what passed at Corfinium, retreated from Luceria to Canusium, and from thence to Brundusium. He ordered all the new
levies to join him, armed the shepherds and slaves, furnished them with
horses, and formed a body of about three hundred cavalry. Meanwhile the
pretor L. Manlius flying from Alba, with six cohorts; and the pretor Rutilus
Lupus, from Tarracina, with three; saw Caesar's
cavalry at a distance, commanded by Bivius Curius: upon which, the soldiers
immediately abandoned the two pretors, and joined the troops under the
conduct of Curius. Several other parties, flying different ways, fell in,
some with the foot,otherswith the horse. Cn. Magius of Cremona, Pompey's chief engineer,
being taken on his way to Brundusium, was brought to