Forty thousand men were either slain or destroyed by the flames, and above five thousand captured.

Among the captured were many Carthaginian nobles, eleven senators, with a hundred and seventy-four military standards, above two thousand seven hundred Numidian horses, and six elephants.

Eight elephants were destroyed either by fire or sword, and a great quantity of arms taken.

All the latter the general dedicated to Vulcan and burnt.
7.

Hasdrubal, in his flight, had made for the nearest city of the Africans, accompanied by a few attendants; and hither all those who survived, following the footsteps of their general had betaken themselves.