As many as three thousand of the soldiers of Hannibal, which were left as a garrison, were here surprised and overpowered.

The booty, and there was a considerable quantity of it, was given up to the troops.

Also, two hundred and forty thousand pecks of wheat, with a hundred and ten thousand pecks of barley, were found here.

The joy, however, thus occasioned, was by no means so great as a disaster sustained a few days afterwards, not far from the town Herdonea.

Cneius Fulvius, the consul, was lying encamped there, in the hope of regaining Herdonea, which had revolted from the Romans after the defeat at Cannae, his position being neither sufficiently secure from the nature of the place, nor strengthened by guards.