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Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae (/ˈkæni, -eɪ, -aɪ/)[b] was a major battle of the Second Punic War that took place on 2 August 216 BC in Apulia, in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage, under Hannibal, surrounded and decisively defeated a larger army of the Roman Republic under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded both as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and as one of the worst defeats in Roman history.
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Lucius Accius Atreus featured the line oderint dum metuant ("let them hate, so long as they fear"), later an infamous motto of Caligula.