As they dispersed themselves in their flight on every side, there was less effusion of blood than might have been expected, considering the completeness of the victory.

There were three thousand four hundred slain, about eight hundred and thirty made prisoners, and twenty-three military standards taken.
15.

The Apulians would have joined their forces to the Samnites before this battle, had not the consul, Publius Decius, encamped in their neighbourhood at Maleventum; and, finding means to bring them to an engagement, put them to the rout.

Here, likewise, there was more of flight than of bloodshed.

Two thousand of the Apulians were slain; but Decius, despising such an enemy, led his legions into Samnium.