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Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 110
Aufidus (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 110
Cannae (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 110
Skirmishes Before Cannae
Next morning the two Consuls broke up their camp,
The Roman army approaches Cannae.
and advanced to where they heard that the enemy
were entrenched. On the second day they
arrived within sight of them, and pitched their
camp at about fifty stades' distance. But when Aemilius observed that the ground was flat and bare for some distance
round, he said that they must not engage there with an enemy
superior to them in cavalry; but that they must rather try to
draw him off, and lead him to ground on which the battle would
be more in the hands of the infantry. But Gaius Terentius being,
from inexperience, of a contrary opinion, there was a dispute
and misunderstanding between the leaders, which of all things
is the most dangerous. Terentius Varro orders an advance. It is the custom, when the two Consuls
are present, that they should take the chief command on alternate days; and the next day
happening to be the turn of Terentius, he
ordered an advance with a view of
Apennines (Italy) (search for this): book 3, chapter 110