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The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six

BOOK XXII
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Ten thousand, who had been scattered in the flight through all Etruria, returned to the city by different roads.
One thousand five hundred of the enemy perished in the battle; many on both sides died afterwards of their wounds.

The carnage on both sides is related, by some authors, to have been many times greater.

I, besides that I would relate nothing drawn from a worthless source, to which the minds of historians generally incline too much, have as my chief authority Fabius, who was contemporary with the events of this war.

Such of the captives as belonged to the Latin confederacy being dismissed without ransom, and the Romans thrown into chains, Hannibal ordered the bodies of his own men to be gathered from the heaps of the enemy, and buried: the body of Flaminius too, which was searched for with great diligence for burial, he could not find.

On the first intelligence of this defeat at Rome, a concourse of the people, dismayed and terrified, took place in the forum.


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