Cannae : village in Apulia where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
... Morley's original scheme. There is something Page 358 heroic in this desperate absence of despair. It reminds us of the most heroic passage in Roman history when, after the massacre of Cannae, the beaten general and cause of the disaster returned an almost solitary fugitive to Rome, preferring flight to a soldier's death, and the whole Roman senate came out to meet him and thank him that ...
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