His character obtained him reception and command.
[Sidenote: A.D.

51] Though the Silures, thus headed, did everything that became their martial reputation, both in the choice and defence of their posts, the Romans, by their discipline and the weight and excellence of their arms, prevailed over the naked bravery of this gallant people, and defeated them in a great battle.

Caractacus was soon after betrayed into their hands, and conveyed to Rome.

The merit of the prisoner was the sole ornament of a triumph celebrated over an indigent people headed by a gallant chief.

The Romans crowded eagerly to behold the man who, with inferior forces, and in an obscure corner of the world, had so many years stood up against the weight of their empire.
As the arts of adulation improved in proportion as the real grandeur of Rome declined, this advantage was compared to the greatest conquests in the most flourishing times of the Republic: and so far as regarded the personal merit of Caractacus, it could not be too highly rated.