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There are three instances of Cannae in three chapters.
Normalized frequency of Cannae in the Essays
who died of relief when her son returned from the defeat at Cannae; from Sophocles and Dionysius the Tyrant who died of joy; and from …
punishment imposed by the Roman people on soldiers who had fled at Cannae❦ and, in the same war, on those who had followed Gnaeus Fulvius❦ …
sort like that of the Roman soldiers, who, after the battle of Cannae, were found with their heads thrust into holes in the earth, which …