 Another force under Servilius was due to join Flaminius.Before that could happen, Hannibal lured Gaius Flaminius' force into a pitched battle by devastating the area that Flaminius had been sent to protect.Polybius wrote that Hannibal calculated that he could draw out Flaminius into battle and that "no sooner had he left the neighborhood of Faesulae, and, advancing a short way beyond the Roman camp, made a raid upon the neighbouring country, then Flaminius became excited, and enraged at the idea that he was despised by the enemy