[The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six by Titus Livius]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six BOOK XXI 103/110
Night broke off the battle when raging most from the determined spirit of the combatants. The conflict therefore was more severe than the slaughter: and as it was pretty much a drawn battle, they separated with equal loss.
On neither side fell more than six hundred infantry, and half that number of cavalry.
But the loss of the Romans was more severe than proportionate to the number that fell, because several of equestrian rank, and five tribunes of the soldiers, and three prefects of the allies were slain.
After this battle Hannibal retired to the territory of the Ligurians, and Sempronius to Luca.
Two Roman quaestors, Caius Fulvius and Lucius Lucretius, who had been treacherously intercepted, with two military tribunes and five of the equestrian order, mostly sons of senators, are delivered up to Hannibal when coming among the Ligurians, in order that he might feel more convinced that the peace and alliance with them would be binding. 60.
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