. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XXXV. Hannibal (?) 227 SECOND PUNIC WAR and dearest struck dead. But as yet nothing certain wasknown, and for some days the gates of the city were throngedby distracted women, who besieged all who entered withclamorous importunity, inquiring about the fate of brothers,husbands, and sons. Every day the Senate sat in close debatefrom sunrise to sunset, to concert measures of defence in theface of so imminent a peril. But even in that august assemblysigns of panic appeared when three
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XXXV. Hannibal (?) 227 SECOND PUNIC WAR and dearest struck dead. But as yet nothing certain wasknown, and for some days the gates of the city were throngedby distracted women, who besieged all who entered withclamorous importunity, inquiring about the fate of brothers,husbands, and sons. Every day the Senate sat in close debatefrom sunrise to sunset, to concert measures of defence in theface of so imminent a peril. But even in that august assemblysigns of panic appeared when three days later tidings of asecond disaster were received. A body of four thousandcavalry which had been sent forward from Ariminum by theother consul was met half-way by Maharbal, one of Hannibalsofficers, who cut to pieces two thousand men and made prisonersof the rest. QuiNTUs Fabius As the ordinary machinery of government seemed inade-quate to deal with such a crisis it was decided to appoint adictator, and the choice fell on Quintus Fabius, who has alreadybeen mentioned as the leader of the embassy whi
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