Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 41
Rev. Canon Roberts, Ed.

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A few days before his arrival Junius and Manlius began a determined attack on the town of Nesactium, to which place the chiefs of the Histri, with their king, Aepulo, had retired. [2] Claudius brought up the two newly-raised legions, and after disbanding the old army with its generals, invested the town and proceeded to attack it with the vineae. [3] There was a river flowing past the town which impeded the assailants and furnished water to the Histrians. [4] After many days' work he diverted this river into a new channel, and the cutting off of their water-supply as though by a miracle greatly alarmed the natives. Even then they had no thought of suing for peace; they made up their minds to murder their women and children, and that this horrid deed might be a spectacle to the enemy, they butchered [5??] them openly on the walls and then flung them down. Amidst the shrieks of the women and children and the unspeakable [6??] horrors of the massacre, the Romans surmounted the walls and entered the town. When the king heard the terrified cries of those who fled, and understood [7??] from the tumult that the place was taken, he stabbed himself that he might not be taken alive. The rest were either killed or made prisoners. [8] This was followed by the storming and destruction of two other towns, Mutila and Faveria. The booty, considering the poverty of the natives, surpassed expectations, and the whole of it was given to the soldiers; 5632 persons were sold as slaves. [9] The prime instigators of the war were scourged and beheaded. The extermination of these three towns and the death of the king led to peace throughout Histria; [10] all the tribes made their submission and gave hostages.