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[99] The Romans, according to their custom, sent ten senators to the newly acquired provinces of Spain, which Scipio, or Brutus before him, had received in surrender, or had taken by force, to settle their affairs on a peace basis.
Y.R. 642
At a later time, other revolts having taken place in Spain,
B.C. 112
Calpurnius Piso was chosen as commander. He was succeeded by Servius Galba. When the Cimbri invaded Italy, and Sicily was torn by the second servile war, the Romans were too much preoccupied to send soldiers to Spain, but sent legates who endeavored to settle affairs without war as far as they could. When the Cimbri were driven out Titus Didius was sent to Spain, and he slew about 20,000 of the Arevaci. He also removed Termesum, a large city always insubordinate to the Romans, from a place of security into the plain, and ordered the inhabitants to live without walls.
Y.R. 656
He also besieged the city of Colenda and captured it nine
B.C. 98
months after he had invested it, and sold the inhabitants with their wives and children.


Appian. The Foreign Wars. Horace White. New York. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1899.

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