Cannæ

Cannæ, an ancient town of Apulia, in Southern Italy, not far from the mouth of the Aufidus (now Ofanto), and 1½ mile N. of the modern Canosa. Here, in the summer of 216 B.C., Hannibal (q.v.) with 50,000 men defeated with prodigious slaughter a Roman army of 86,000 men under Æmius Paulus and Terentius Varro.