. The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls . ence was all butat an end, Marcus, one of the praetors, mounted the publicplatform and cried in a loud voice, We are beaten, ORomans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed, andFlaminius the Consul is slain. At the words of Marcus the city became a scene of wilddespair. Many men and women who had lost theirhusbands and sons called down the curses of the gods upontheir enemy, others wept and prayed in the temples andforbore to curse, for all the bitterness of their loss. Amid the tumult, the Senate
. The story of Rome, from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, told to boys and girls . ence was all butat an end, Marcus, one of the praetors, mounted the publicplatform and cried in a loud voice, We are beaten, ORomans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed, andFlaminius the Consul is slain. At the words of Marcus the city became a scene of wilddespair. Many men and women who had lost theirhusbands and sons called down the curses of the gods upontheir enemy, others wept and prayed in the temples andforbore to curse, for all the bitterness of their loss. Amid the tumult, the Senate alone remained calm. Dayafter day, from early morning until late in the evening,it sat to consider how it might best save the city from themighty conqueror. Three days passed, and then even worse tidings arrived. The Consul Servilius had sent his cavalry to preventHannibals advance on Rome, but it had been eithercaptured or put to the sword. Servilius without his cavalrywas powerless to prevent the Punic army from advancingupon the city. In a short time indeed, Hannibal, at the head of his. We are beaten, O Romans, in a great battle, our army is destroyed. THE BATTLE OF LAKE TRASIMENUS 191 triumphant army, was scarcely two days march fromRome. Flaminius was dead. Between Servilius and the city wasthe Carthaginian army. Being bereft of both her Consuls, Rome determined toappoint a Dictator, CHAPTER LXI HANNIBAL OUTWITS FABIUS The Senate had restored some sense of confidence to thestricken people by its gravity and calmness. It had alsoreassured them by destroying the bridges by which the citycould be approached and by strengthening her walls. Soldiers who had been deemed too old to follow thearmy were now called together, and armed with weaponswhich had hung for years in the temples—trophies thesefrom many a hard-fought field. But most important of all, a Dictator was chosen toguide Rome in the crisis that had befallen her. Fabius, the noble patrician who was elected, was a w
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