Gisco
5. An officer in the service of Hannibal, of whom a story is told by Plutarch (
Fab. Max. 15), that having accompanied his general to reconnoitre the enemy's army just before the battle of Cannae, Gisco expressed his astonishment at their numbers. To which Hannibal replied: "There is one thing yet more astonishing--that in all that number of men there is not one named Gisco."