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Flaminius

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Flaminius [fləˈmɪnɪəs]
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(Biographies / Flaminius, Gaius (death date: 217 bc), Roman, POLITICS: statesman, MILITARY: general) Gaius (ˈgaɪəs). died 217 bc, Roman statesman and general: built the Flaminian Way; defeated by Hannibal at Trasimene (217)
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Noun1.Flaminius - Roman statesman and general who built the Flaminian Way; died when he was defeated by Hannibal (died 217 BC)
Gaius Flaminius
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Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
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