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[2] They then marched out in full force and, crossing the Tiber,1 led their troops for eighty stades along the river; and at news of the approach of the Galatians they drew up the army for battle.

1 Diodorus is the only ancient writer who places this battle of the Allia on the right, and not the left, bank of the Tiber.

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