The Carthaginian camp was next shifted to Munda, and the Romans instantly followed them. Here a pitched battle was fought for four hours and the !{omans were winning a splendid victory when the signal was given to retire. Cn. Scipio was wounded in the thigh with a javelin and the soldiers round him were in great fear lest the wound should prove fatal. There was not the smallest doubt that if that delay had not occurred the Carthaginian camp could have been captured that san1e day, for the men and the elephants, too, had been driven back to their lines, and thirty-nine of the latter had been transfixed by the heavy Roman javelins. It is stated that 12,000 men were killed in this battle and about 3000 made prisoners, whilst fifty-seven standards were taken.
From there the Carthaginians retreated to Auringis, the Romans following them up slowly and allo\ving them no time to recover from their defeats. There another battle was fought, and Scipio was carried into the field on a Jitter. The victory was decisive, though not half as many of the enemy were killed. as on the previous occasion, for there were fewer left to fight. But the Spaniards have a natural instinct for repairing the losses in war, and when Mago was sent by his brother to raise troops, they very soon filled up the gaps in the army' and encouraged their generals to try another battle. Though they were mostly fresh soldiers, yet as they had to defend a cause which had been repeatedly worsted in so short a time, they fought with the same spirit and the same result as those before them had done. l\;Iore than 8000 men were killed, not less than 1000 made prisoners, and fifty-eight standards were captured. {ost of the spoil had belonged to Gauls, there were a large number of golden armlets and chains, and two distinguished Gaulish chieftains, Moeniacoepto and Vismaro, fell in the battle. Eight elephants were captured and three killed. 13
As things were going so prosperously in Spain, the Roman's at last began to feel ashamed of having left Saguntum, the primary cause of the war, in the possession of the enelny for almost eight years. So after expelling the Carthaginian garrison they recovered the town and restored it to all the former inhabitants whom the ravages of ,var had spared. The Turdetani, who had brought about the war bet,veen Saguntum and Carthage,
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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