He captured over one hundred of their towns, but tempered his victories with moderate measures, showing himself greater in peace than in war.

He granted to the poorer classes lands on favorable conditions, and did much to produce contentment among the natives.

But farther west, in the valleys of the Douro and Tagus, and in Lusitania (Portugal), there seems to have been constant warfare.
In 154, MUMMIUS, the same who eight years later sacked Corinth, was Governor of Farther Spain.

His defeat by the Lusitanians encouraged the Celtiberi to revolt again, and there followed another defeat, with a massacre of many Roman citizens.

Two years later (152), CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS avenged these losses, founded Corduba, and governed the country humanely.