She called on Rome for help.

A Roman deputation went to decide the quarrel; but the Gauls refused to obey its summons, and treated it with insolence.
The deputation returned with an army, succeeded in beating the refractory tribes, and gave their land to the Massilians.

The same thing occurred repeatedly with the same result.

Within the space of thirty years nearly all the tribes between the Rhone and the Var, in the country which was afterwards Provence, were subdued and driven back amongst the mountains, with notice not to approach within a mile of the coast in general, and a mile and a half of the places of disembarkation.

But the Romans did not stop there.