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[ Also their common sense led them to recognize immediately and appropriate arms better than their own.]
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[ This is an excuse. The maniple was of perfect nobility and, without the least difficulty, could face in any direction.]
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[ This was an enveloping attack of an army and not of men or groups. The Roman army formed a wedge and was attacked at the point and sides of the wedge; there was not a separate flank attack. That very day the maniple presented more depth than front.]
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[ They had been sent to attack Hannibal's camp; they were repulsed and taken prisoner in their own camp after the battle.]
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[ This extract is taken from the translation of Dom Thuillier. Livy does not state the precise number of Roman combatants. He says nothing had been neglected in order to render the Roman army the strongest possible, and from what he was told by some it numbered eighty-seven thousand two hundred men. That is the figure of Polybius. His account has killed, forty-five thousand; taken or escaped after the action, nineteen thousand. Total sixty-four thousand. What can have become of the twenty-three thousand remaining?]