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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · roman retreat · poverty and wealth · paulinus of nola · naval warfare and sea power · hannibal moves camp · conquest, plunder, and captives · capua · caius claudius nero · battle and tactics · appian way
Usually: narrative (2) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1)
While Gracchus’ battle outcomes unfold at Beneventum, Hannibal moves to Nola; Marcellus’ cavalry circuit under Caius Claudius Nero fails to arrive in time, contributing to a Roman retreat as Hannibal goes to Tarentum.
to be executed in the temple of Liberty, which his father caused to be built on the Aventine out of money arising from fines, and which his father also dedicated. 17. While these events occurred at Beneventum, Hannibal having laid waste the territory of Naples, moved his camp to Nola. The consul, as soon as he was aware of his approach, sent for Pemponius the propraetor, with the troops he had in the camp above Sues…
He continues the comparison, suggesting the retreat of the Goths was not fear, recounts Alaric’s advance along the Appian Way and the destruction of Capua’s fate contrasted with Nola and Paulinus, and notes Italy’s declining prosperity under the empire’s fall.
114 (return) [ See the pathetic complaint of Jerom, (tom. v. p. 400,) in his preface to the second book of his Commentaries on the Prophet Ezekiel.] There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. Yet, when the first emotions had subsided, and a fair estimate was made of the real damage, the more learned and judicious …