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After Hanibal s first devastating victories on the Italian peninsula Fabius employed a skillful campaign of attrition against the Carthaginians - hence his nickname Cunctator However on August 2nd 216 the new consuls Varrus and Paul agreed to fight Hanibal on a bend in the Aufidus River terrain previously chosen by the Carthaginian In this battle of Cannae - the most disastrous in the history of the Roman republic - Rome lost more than 60 of its ...Seguir leyendo