The consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus (who died at Cannae) had left a reserve camp of about 10,000 men on the other bank.
Tuditanus, along with his fellow tribune Gaius Octavius, advised that the men put on their shields, form a shield-wall, and break out through the lines of the exhausted Carthaginian army.
The 600 men led by Tuditanus cut their way out to reach the larger camp, and from thence marched to Canusium, where they obtained safe refuge.
[1] This episode recorded by Livy goes back via Lucius Coelius Antipater to the Roman poet Ennius, but it is not told by Polybius, who retells in the completely preserved third book of his historical work a reliable and detailed report of the events of the Second Punic War in the years 219 to 216 BC.
These two young censors managed to complete the first lustrum (ritual cleansing) of the Roman state since the start of the Second Punic War.
However, Tuditanus preferred Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the "Delayer", who had been elected censor in 230 BC, and was thus "junior", to be Princeps Senatus since he was the most meritorious of the senior senators.
In 205 BC, he was sent into Greece with the title of proconsul at the head of a military and naval force, for the purpose of opposing Philip V of Macedon.
It is not clear how he is related to the other two or three prominent Tuditani: The Sempronia, who was mother of Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (one of Caesar's generals and assassins), may have been descended from any one of these men.