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A large detachment of both armies were advancing toward the position of the other, near the River Ticinus, to reconnoiter, when they met, and the battle began. Hannibal advanced with great impetuosity, and sent, at the same time, a detachment around to attack his enemy in the rear.
Hannibal could out-maneuver them all in stratagem, and could conquer them on the field. There was, however, now destined to appear a man capable of coping with Hannibal. It was young Scipio, the one who saved the life of his father at the battle of Ticinus.
Was I, the heir of Sergius Silo’s glory, the less forbidden even to canvass for the consulship, that my great grandsire’s blood was poured out, like water, upon those fields that witnessed Rome’s extremest peril, Trebia, and the Ticinus, and Thrasymene and Cannæ?
Scipio, however, was the first to cross the Po, and having pitched his camp at the river Ticinus, he delivered the following oration for the sake of encouraging his soldiers before he led them out to form for battle: 40.
In fact, there was a large body of Gauls in the Roman camp, who were fighting under Scipio at the battle of Ticinus, who deserted his standard immediately afterward, and came over in a mass to Hannibal.
This was the Scipio who grew up for the conquest of Africa, and who was to receive a name from its ill-fortune. To Ticinus succeeded Trebia, where, in the consulship of Sempronius, the second outburst of the Punic War was spent. The third thunderbolt of Hannibal fell at the Trasimene lake, when Flaminius was commander.
If this be so, it was impossible that Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius could have been consuls, to whom both at the beginning of the siege the Saguntine ambassadors were despatched, and who, during their office, fought with Hannibal; the one at the river Ticinus, and both some time after at the Trebia.
Even with other nouns the plural is regular; e.g. Cic. Publius was consul in 218, and after being defeated by Hannibal at the Ticinus, joined his brother in Spain. At first they won important successes, but in 212 they were hemmed in and killed, after a crushing defeat. L. AEMILIUS: the father of Macedonicus.
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