Trasimene

In graphic, panoramic prose, Durham describes the battles, including the icy slaughter of the Trebia; the mist-shrouded battle along Lake Trasimene; the battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal's outnumbered force surrounded and decimated seventy thousand Romans in a single afternoon; and Zama, the hard slog that proved to be the decisive contest.

The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005

“‘They are my Trasimene trousers, and I mean to wear them there.’”

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Innumerable treasures made of gold and silver had melted, even the solid gold statue of Victory given by Hiero of Syracuse after Trasimene, and another massive statue in gilded bronze of Victory driving a biga-a two-horsed chariot.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

And at the thought of Cannæ and Trasimene the nineteenth century Senator from Illinois fiercely pulled his beard.

A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan

The ground was white with frost all the way down through Toscana; in the middle of the day the frosty mist lifted and the sun shone – and she saw again a spot she had never forgotten: the lake of Trasimene lying pale blue, surrounded by the mountains.

Jenny: A Novel 1921

“ 'They are my Trasimene trousers, and I mean to wear them there.'”

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

Punic War to a descendant of Regulus, who has fled wounded from the rout of Trasimene.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Roma uiro regnumque orbis sortita iacebat. quid referam Cannas admotaque moenibus arma, postque tuos, Trasimene, lacus Fabiumque morantem

The Rule of Fate 1912

"'They are my Trasimene trousers, and I mean to wear them there.'"

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

Trasimene, outbreak of _religio_ after the battle of, 318

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884