and far-seeing tactics of the other, they at one time elected them both consuls, at another made the one consul with the other serving as proconsul.  Poseidonius tells us that Fabius was called the shield of the state, and Marcellus the sword.  And Hannibal himself said that he feared Fabius as a schoolmaster, but regarded Marcellus as an antagonist, for the former prevented his doing any mischief, while the latter might make him suffer some.

X. At first Hannibal’s soldiers, elated with their victory, roamed with careless confidence out of their camp and plundered the country; where Marcellus fell upon them, and by a series of defeats considerably weakened them.  Next, he went to Naples and Nola.  At Naples he encouraged the citizens, who of their own accord wished well to the Roman cause; but at Nola he found the city in a state of faction, as the senate were unable to restrain the populace, who favoured Hannibal.  There was one Bandius, a man of the first nobility of the city, and renowned for bravery.  This man had fought at Cannae with conspicuous valour, and had slain many Carthaginians.  When after the battle he was found in a heap of slain with his body pierced with darts, Hannibal, in admiration of his courage, not only dismissed him without ransom, but gave him presents and made him a personal friend.  Bandius, out of gratitude, was one of the most eager partisans of Hannibal, and, having great influence with the people, was urging them to revolt.  Marcellus thought that it would be a crime to put to death a man of such glorious antecedents, and who had taken part in one of the greatest struggles of the Romans; and, besides his natural kindliness, being able by his conversation to win over any man of noble nature, he on one occasion when greeted by Bandius inquired who he might be, though he knew very well, but merely wanted a pretext and opportunity for conversation with him.  For, when he answered, “Lucius Bandius,” Marcellus, as though surprised and pleased, said, “Are you indeed that Bandius, of whom all those who fought at Cannae told us at Rome, the only man who did not desert Paulus AEmilius the consul, but who received upon his own body the greater part of the darts which were aimed at him?” Bandius admitted that he was the man, and endeavoured to speak lightly of his wounds, but Marcellus went on:  “Then, as you bear about you such marks of your devotion to our cause, why did you not at once come to me?  Do you think us slow to requite the valour of our friends, when it is honoured even by the enemy.”  Having spoken to him thus courteously, he embraced him, and presented him with a war-horse and five hundred silver drachmas.