Originally Posted by Sarcasm
at the moment I do not remember if for the Cannae battle a dictatorship had been proclaimed but if was the Dictator, on foot, it would have been taken by his Magister Equitum, commandant of the cavalry and second in command, which was authorized to be to horse. it is also possible that a commandant preferred to check develop him they of the battle to horse for a convenience matter but historically the few generals which were throwing themselves in the fray were making it taken by infantry formations, Caesar for example
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