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Second Punic War :

--- August 2 - Hannibal crushes the Romans in the Battle Of Cannae , one of the greatest tactical masterpiece in military history. As a result, a number of Italian cities allied to Rome desert to the Carthaginian side, especially cities in the Magna Graecia , and Capua . Again, the later Scipio Africanus fought in the battle as a tribune, and later prevented a mutiny among the survivors of Cannae .

--- The historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi to consult the Oracle there for advice about what to do after Cannae.

--- The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus holds off an attack by Hannibal in the First Battle Of Nola .

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Lucius Aemilius Paullus , Consul