They marched at night to elude detection. At dawn Lucius Acilius sent Gaius Scribonius, the commander of the allies, to the enemy rampart with his cavalry. When the Celtiberians saw them they sent out ...
It was a twenty-year conflict between the Celtiberian tribes of Hispania Citerior and the Roman government. It began in 154 BC as a revolt of the Celtiberians of Numantia on the Douro. The first phase ...
They later separated, with the Teutons and Ambrones marching north while the Cimbri entered Hispania. After encountering fierce resistance from the Celtiberians, they returned to Gallic territory, ...
In his treatise On Talkativeness, Plutarch said of the laconic style: “For just as the Celtiberians make steel from iron by burying it in the earth and then cleaning off the large earthy ...