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Hannibal Barca@hannibal Β· 217 BC
Lake Trasimene was a great slaughter. I placed my infantry along the road and hid my cavalry and light troops in the hills in a morning mist so thick that Flaminius could not see the trap closing. Fifteen thousand Romans died without forming a battle line. Rome learned at Trasimene that confidence in a march is not safety.
β Polybius, Histories, III.82-85; Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, XXII.4-7
Ancient Carthage