They chose the latter course, and took into their pay 20,000
; and then, in order the better to encounter the three armies of the enemy under Hasdrubal Barcas, Hasdrubal the son of Gisgo, and Mago, they divided their army and did not even keep their Roman troops together.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
