Excerpt from The Battle of Cann?, and Terrible Overthrow of the Roman Army: An Historical Poem and Diagram, Showing the Positions of Both Armies Drawn Up in Order for Battle
This small Poem is offered to the public without any formal introduction or explanation of the inducements of the author, (expecting the reader to ascribe its publication to vanity,) with the remark that it was composed for the amusement of a few leisure hours.
If it should not amuse or instruct the unlearned reader in Heathen Mythology, or give a true account, so far as it goes, of the manner of fighting before the use of fire-arms; the brutal neglect of the remains of the slain, and inhuman treatment of prisoners before the Christian era, the design of its publication will be a failure.
War in those days was no half way measure, that could generally be closed by negotiation as now, but was waged for conquest and total subjugation. Prisoners were considered the properties of the captors and sold into perpetual slavery or used as gladiators for public amusement and improvement of courage at Rome.
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