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 Regulus not Flaminius 

As another reader of this article has noticed, there is a mistake in the part ""Strategic Background"" where it is written that Gaius Flaminius received the command from Fabius after the end of the latter's dictatorship. In fact, however, by then (the autumn of 217 BC) it was six months since Flaminius had rested in peace at the Lake Trasimene. He was replaced by Marcus Atilius Regulus (check Livy, XXII.25,31-32 and Polybius, III.114). I'm putting it in the article.  "