Has inter strages rapido terrore coorti, invadunt terga atque averso turbine miscent bella inopina viri, Tyrius quos fallere doctus hanc ipsam pugnae rector formarat ad artem; succinctique dolis, fugerent ceu Punica castra, dediderant dextras; tum totis mentibus actam in caedes aciem pone atque in terga ruentes praecipitant.
In the midst of this carnage there was a sudden alarm. A fresh onset of war was launched, and the Roman rear was surprised by troops trained by Hannibal, a master of stratagem, for this very purpose. Pretending to desert from the Carthaginian army, they had surrendered. Now, equipped with guile, they rushed in a body upon the Roman rear, with hearts wholly bent on slaughter.
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