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12. Tiberius Claudius the proconsul, who had been praetor the preceding year, was in command at Pisa with a garrison of one legion. [2] The senate, informed by his dispatches, voted that these same dispatches should be forwarded to Gaius Claudius —for by now the other consul had crossed to Sardinia —and [3] added a decree that, since the province of Histria had been subdued,1 he should, if it seemed wise to him, lead the army against the Ligurians. [4] At the same time, in consequence of the dispatches of the consul, which he had written regarding events in Histria, a thanksgiving for two days was decreed. The other consul, Tiberius Sempronius, also conducted in Sardinia a successful campaign. He led the army into the country of the Sardinian Ilienses.2 [5] Strong reinforcements of the Balari had come to the Ilienses; he fought in pitched battle with both tribes. The enemy was repulsed and routed and stripped of his camp; twelve thousand armed men were slain. [6] [p. 223]The next day the consul ordered the weapons to be3 collected, heaped up in a pile and burned as an offering to Vulcan. He led the conquering army back into winter quarters in allied cities. [7] And Gaius Claudius, on receipt of the letter of Tiberius Claudius and the decree of the senate, led the legions over from Histria against the Ligurians. [8] The enemy had advanced into the plains and encamped near the river Scultenna,4 and there he fought them in line of battle. Fifteen thousand were killed, more than seven hundred captured, either in the battle or in the camp —for it too was taken —and fifty-one military standards. [9] The Ligurians, the remnants left by the slaughter, fled to the mountains, and no armed force showed itself to the consul anywhere as he ravaged the farms in the plains far and wide. [10] Claudius, victorious over two peoples in one year, and having pacified two provinces in his consulship, a thing which had rarely happened, returned to Rome.

1 For the progressive development of the meaning of the phrase provincia confecta, cf. XL. xxxv. 4 and the note.

2 The Ilienses were of a different stock from the Balari; both stocks were included under the common designation Sardi.

3 B.C. 177

4 This river, rising in the Apennines, flowed past Modena, of. Strabo V. i. 12.

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