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Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 9, chapter 4
Capua (Italy) (search for this): book 9, chapter 4
The Siege of Capua
For the Roman army did not venture to come out
Carthaginian difficulties.
and give battle, from fear of the enemy's
horse, but remained resolutely within their
entrenchment; well knowing that the cavalry,
by which they had been worsted in the battles, could not
hurt them there. While the Carthaginians, again, naturally
could not remain any longer encamped with their cavalry,
because all the pastures in the surrounding country had been
utterly destroyed by the Romans with tha e changed his tactics. He
imagined that if by a secret march he could
suddenly appear in the neighbourhood of Rome,
he might by the alarm which he would inspire
in the inhabitants by his unexpected movement, perhaps do
something worth while against the city itself; or, if he could not
do that, would at least force Appius either to raise the siege of
Capua, in order to hasten to the relief of his native town, or
to divide the Roman forces; which would then be easier for
him to conquer in detail.