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Often appears with: quintus antyllius · opimius · numidian cavalry deserters · military discipline and training · hannibal at rome · crime and punishment · civil war and rebellion · caius gracchus · battle and tactics · aventine panic · assemblies, councils, and senates
Usually: narrative (2) · betrayal (1) · injustice endured (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · indignation (1) · lament (1)
During Hannibal’s approach to Rome, Fulvius Flaccus enters via the Capuan gate and sets a camp near the Esquiline and Colline gates; Rome’s senate and consuls coordinate defenses amid mistaken panic and successful cavalry action.
the enemy came, the greater was the number of fugitives slain by the Numidians who preceded him, and the greater the number of prisoners made of every rank and age. 10. During this confusion, Fulvius Flaccus entered the city with his troops through the Capuan gate, passed through the midst of the city, and through Carinae, to Esquiliae; and going out thence, pitched his camp between the Esquiline and Colline gates. …
During a political clash in Rome, Quintus Antyllius taunts Fulvius and is murdered; the Gracchan faction blames itself, Opimius uses the moment to push for revenge, but rain halts action.
for that intimations of this are given in her letters to him. However, it is confidently affirmed by others, that Cornelia did not in the least approve of these actions. When the day came in which Opimius designed to abrogate the laws of Caius, both parties met very early at the capitol; and the consul having performed all the rites usual in their sacrifices, one Quintus Antyllius, an attendant on the consul, carryi…