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The first man to volunteer to make the outflanking Nasica, Fabius, and others volunteer to cross the mountains into Macedonia by Gytheum. movement was Scipio Nasica, son-in-law of Scipio Africanus, who afterwards became the most influential man in the Senate,P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum was afterwards Pontifex Maximus (B. C. 150). See Cic. de Sen. 3, 50. and who now undertook to lead the party. The second was Fabius Maximus, the eldest of the sons of the consul Aemilius Paulus,Of the two eldest sons of Aemilius, the elder was adopted by Quintus Fabius Maximus, the second by P. Cornelius Scipio, son of the elder Africanus, his maternal uncle. still quite a young man, who stood forward and offered to join with great enthusiasm. Aemilius was therefore delighted and assigned them a body of soldiers.From Plutarch, Aemilius, 15, who adds that Polybius made a mistake as to the number of soldiers told off for this service, which to judge from Livy, 44, 35, Polybius probably stated at 5000. Plutarch got his correction from an extant letter of Nasica (8000 Roman infantry, with 120 horse, and 200 Thracians and Cretans). . . .
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The Romans offered a gallant resistance by aid of their strong targets or Ligurian Struggle in the bed of the Enipeus. Livy, 44, 35. shields. . . .
