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Excerpt from Livy: Book XXIII
The Roman state was now confronted with a situation of extreme peril. The field army had been almost annihilated. Nothing stood between Hannibal and Rome. The senate met in the Curia Hostilia and decided first of all to send out a mounted reconnaisance to discover the number and position of the enemy forces, to penetrate their designs, and to report on the possibility of collecting troops to oppose them. The senators themselves made it their business to allay the fears of the citizens and to put the city into a proper state of defence 3. But Hannibal, though urged to advance on Rome4, knew that his siege train was insufficient for the investment of the capital.
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