Fifteen thousand Romans fell, and as many more were captured.

The loss of the Carthaginians was but 1,500, and was confined mostly to the Gallic allies.

All Etruria was lost, and Hannibal could march without hindrance upon Rome, whose citizens, expecting the enemy daily, tore down the bridges over the Tiber and prepared for a siege.

QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS was appointed Dictator.
Hannibal, however, did not march upon Rome, but turned through Umbria, devastating the country as he went.

Crossing the Apennines, he halted on the shores of the Adriatic, in Picenum.