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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · battle and tactics · roman cavalry · publius · pherae · numidian cavalry · military discipline and training · larisa · flamininus and philip · arms, armor, and machines
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Numidian reconnoitrers flee after a skirmish with Roman cavalry led by Publius; Hannibal positions cavalry by the sea, detaches preparations for crossing, and keeps elephants and remaining men behind.
[Sidenote: The passage of the elephants.] +46.+ The mode of getting the elephants across was as follows. They made a number of rafts strongly compacted, which they lashed firmly two and two together, so as to form combined a breadth of about fifty feet, and brought them close under the bank at the place of crossing. To the outer edge of these they lashed some others and made them join exactly; so that the whole raft…
Flamininus advances from near Pherae, campfires at Pherae, and reconnoiters as Philip marches from Larisa; their advance guards nearly collide in a dark pass and later cavalry skirmishes occur.
[Sidenote: The advanced guards of the two armies meet.] +19.+ After providing for contingencies by these preparations, Flamininus advanced with his whole force at a moderate pace, and, having arrived at about fifty stades from Pherae, pitched a camp there; and next morning, just before the morning watch, sent out some reconnoitring parties to see whether they could get any opportunity of discovering the position and…