Mandonius
and
Indibĭlis. Two brothers, and chiefs of the Spanish
tribe of the Ilergetes, who played an important part in the war between the Romans and
Carthaginians in Spain during the Second Punic War. For some years they were faithful allies
of the Carthaginians; but in consequence of the generous treatment which the wife of Mandonius
and the daughters of Indibilis received from P. Scipio, when they fell into his hands, the two
brothers deserted the Carthaginian cause, and joined Scipio in B.C. 209 with all the forces of
their nation. But in B.C. 206 the illness and reported death of Scipio gave them hopes of
shaking off the yoke of Rome, and they excited a general revolt not only among their own
subjects, but the neighbouring Celtiberian tribes also. They were defeated by Scipio, and upon
suing for forgiveness were pardoned. But when Scipio left Spain in the next year (B.C. 205)
they again revolted. The Romans attacked them; Indibilis was slain in battle, and Mandonius
was soon after captured and put to death (
Livy, xxix. 1; Appian,
Hisp. 38).
