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[5] In the other elements of their army, more than ten thousand soldiers were killed and no less than fifteen thousand were taken captive.1 Most of the chariots were destroyed in the battle but two hundred were taken. The baggage train, with the draught animals and most of the wagons, fell into the hands of the Greeks.

1 Plut. Timoleon 28.5-6 gives the number of dead as 10,000, including 3000 Carthaginians.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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