Go, consul, tell all the tale of Cannae to the fathers, to laggard Fabius, to the people.
To find Silius at his best--not a very exalted best--we must turn to the passage where he depicts the feelings of Hannibal on finding the body of Paulus on the field of Cannae (x.
Similarly in Rome, two centuries sever the Rome which rose from Cannae from the Rome which administered Egypt and Hispania.
Thus this divine energy, which after Cannae uplifts Rome, riveting the sympathies of Polybius, outlives Rome itself, still controlling the imaginations of men, until its last flicker in the eighteenth century.
Against his advice the battle of Cannae was fought, and, refusing to fly from the field when the battle was lost, he was slain.
Our later specimens were probably worn in the battle of Cannae (216 B.
Two helmets from Cannae are later developments of the same type (No.
But now the news of the victory of Cannae reduced even the factious opposition at home to silence.
Consequences of the Battle of Cannae Prevention of Reinforcements from Spain This unexampled success appeared at length to mature the great political combination, for the sake of which Hannibal had come to Italy.
Hannibal encamped at Cannae on the right bank of the Aufidus.
There after the battle ofCannae had been fought and its effects in loss or gain could by degrees be discerned, at the commencement of 540, the fifth year of the war, the dispositions of the opposing Romans and Phoenicians were the following.
Battle at Cannae While these preparations for the next campaign were being made in Rome, the war had already recommenced in Apulia.
The legions from Cannae sent to Sicily held their ground in the north and east of the island with courage and success against the Carthaginians and Hieronymus; the latter met his death towards the end of 539 by the hand of an assassin.
Chapter V The War under Hannibal to the Battle of Cannae Hannibal and the Italian Celts The appearance of the Carthaginian army on the Roman side of the Alps changed all at once the situation of affairs, and disconcerted the Roman plan of war.
Well might Hannibal feel that even after Cannae Rome was not conquered.
The news of Cannae came to Rome and the city was plunged in mourning.
Hannibal, strong with the confidence with which he inspired his people, drew up a line less deep by half than the Roman army and at Cannae hemmed in an army which had twice his number and exterminated it.
Cannae and Pharsalus, are sufficient to illustrate ancient combat.
We have mentioned Cannae and Pharsalus, we shall study in them the mechanism and the morale of ancient combat, two things which cannot be separated.
I winnae cum in, I cannae cum in, Without my play-feres[327] nine.
There cannae be naething on the Bass but just the sheep.
But that's the strange thing about you folk of the college learning: ye're ignorat, and ye cannae see 't.
But ye see, in this warld, the way God made it, wecannae just get a'thing that we want.
They cannae bring in James as art and part until they've brought in Alan first as principal; that's sound law: they could never put the cart before the horse.
If I cannae find Lapraik, I'll join ye and the twa of us'll have a crack wi' him.
I will be the offended shentleman, for who effer heard of such suffeeciency as tell a shentlemans that is the king's officer he cannae speak Cot's English?
I cannae lee, Alan, I cannae do it naitural," says I, mocking him.
Them that cannae tell the truth," he observed to myself as we went on again, "should be aye mindful to leave an honest, handy lee behind them.
That's a' that there is to women; and you seem to be such a gomeral that ye cannae tell the tane frae the tither.
I cannae make heed nor tail of it," he would say, "but it sticks in my mind ye've made a gowk of yourself.
Not merely men, but money and military stores, were drained to the utmost, and if the armies of that year should be swept off by a repetition of the slaughters of Thrasymene and Cannae all felt that Rome would cease to exist.
I have a plan to waylay the witnesses upon the road, and see if I cannae get a little harle of justice out of the military man notoriously ignorant of the law that shall command the party.
I cannae make head nor tail of it," he would say, "but it sticks in my mind ye've made a gowk of yourself.
But that's the strange thing about you folk of the college learning: ye're ignorant, and yecannae see 't.
But ye see in this warld, the way God made it, we cannaejust get a'thing that we want.
It would seem that the extraordinary series of performances ordered during the depression and despair that followed Cannae had succeeded for the time in quieting the religio.
One of them prophesied the disaster of Cannae which had already happened; the other gave directions for instituting games in honour of Apollo, including one which placed the religious part of these ludi in the hands of the decemviri.
But after Cannae we begin to divine that the stress of disaster is telling more severely on the nervous fibre of the people.
A consul's army consisted nominally of two double legions, but in the Punic wars military exigencies rather than custom dictated the numbers of the army, and the two consuls atCannae (216 B.
The legions which had fought at Cannae were the fifth and sixth.
When the Roman power was laid prostrate at the Trasimenus and at Cannae in Italy, their successes in Spain had raised it up from its fallen condition.
That the troops which fought at Cannae were growing old there, for eight years, and would die there before the enemy, who was now more than ever flourishing and vigorous would depart from Italy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
