Traismene and Cannae

[Samurai Waki]

The roman armies after Trasimene and Cannae would have had to be made up entirely of old men and young boys by reading Livy.

No way a society,no matter how warlike,losses 100,000 men not only in the prime of their lives,but also representing the entire middle class and goes "oh well" lets call up the young boys and old men and free all the slaves..without their society being turned upside down.

Thats what I was trying to get at. The "not being sure how the Romans felt" was more akin to how the French, and Allied Armies felt about war after WWI. The French lost a massive portion of their military aged population (out of 7,500,000 Mobilized 5,651,000 were either killed or wounded... almost 75% of their effective fighting force) I'm sure, had it been up to them, would have done much the same as the Romans did, if they could've gotten away with it, and later on regretted not having done so.