Carthaginians
Romans
Hannibal Barca
Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul)
Hasdrubal Barca
Gaius Flaminius Nepos (consul
d. Trasimene)
Mago Barca
Maharbal
Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator
(dictator)
Gaius Terentius Varro (survives Cannae)
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (doesn’t)
Servilius Geminus
(ex-consul: also doesn’t)
Gaius Claudius Nero (consul)
Marcus Licinius Salinator (consul)
Scipio Aemilianus (Africanus) the Elder
Lake Trasimene; Flaminius for the Romans leads his men forward
without breakfast; already tired by the time they meet up with the
Carthaginians
The battlefield today (view from NE: shoreline has shifted)
Gauls in centre hold for a long time, but gradually pushed back
Libyans held back until the Romans are in the trap; Carthaginian cavalry
return
‘the victor is not victorious, if the vanquished does not consider himself
so’
- Ennius
