A History of the Roman Empire

The incipl fabius managed to come to the rescue of his grateful subordinate. The rest of two 17 was uneventful, and both parties turne to their quarters for the winter. But new leadership was being brought in - lucius amelius paulus and gaius tarentius vara were elected to the consulship in two 16. This operated under the presumption that while hannibal could easily handle consular armies that were the same size, or even a little bit bigger than his own, there was no way he could resist a force of this magnitude.

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