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nd Romans (at the lowest calculation) had fallen, and three thousand horse, involving the death of some of the wealthiest and most distinguished citizens, with one consul, both the pro-consuls, both the quaestors, twenty-one out of forty-eight tribunes, and not less than eighty senators, among the slain. History does not record any defeat more complete, and very few more murderous. It was at such a moment that Hannibal sought to open negotiations, and Rome refused to entertain them; sent Marcellus to command the fugitives and stragglers whom Varro was trying to rally; ordered new levies, bought up slaves from their masters (who waited for payment till the treasury was replenished) to serve as light troops; enrolled even debtors and prisoners in the Roman legions.-- Contractors supplied stores, agreeing to wait for payment till the end of the war; the fortunes of minors and widows, which were in the hands of guardians and trustees, were advanced to the State, to be repaid at a future