[History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD by Robert F. Pennell]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD CHAPTER XXXIII 15/17
Finally, Labienus was seen to gallop across the field.
It was thought he was fleeing.
Panic seized his troops, they broke and ran.
Thirty thousand were slain, including three thousand Roman Knights, and Labienus himself. Gnaeus Pompey shortly after lost his life, but Sextus lived for a number of years. Caesar tarried in Spain, regulating affairs, until late in the autumn, when he returned to Rome and enjoyed another triumph over the Iberians (Spaniards).
The triumph was followed, as usual, by games and festivals, which kept the populace in a fever of delight and admiration. CATO.-METELLUS SCIPIO. MARCUS PORTIUS CATO UTICENSIS (Footnote: Cato the Younger, called UTICENSIS on account of his death at Utica.) (95-46) was the great-grandson of Cato the Censor.
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