ANCIENT ROME "Paolo Emilio dying at the Battle of Cannae; rejects the horse that gives him Lentulo Tribune; wanting to die in the massacre of his Romans." The consul Lucio Emilio Paolo (? - August 2; 216 BC) led the army of the Roman Republic along with Gaius Terenzio Varrone console; in a strictly tight formation; Hannibal; although numerically disadvantaged; encircled them with a pincer movement; inflicting one of the most disastrous defeats of the Second Punic War. Table illustrated n. 14 from "Roman History" by Charles Rollin (January 30; 1661 - September 14 1741); "engraved in branches of invention from light Sig. Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano and etched by Mr Raffaele Persichini". Rome; 1833