§40.50.1Ergavica inde, nobilis et potens civitas, aliorum circa populorum cladibus territa portas aperuit Romanis.
From there, Ergavica, a famous and powerful city, terrified by the disasters of the other neighboring peoples, opened its gates to the Romans.
§40.50.2eam deditionem oppidorum haud cum fide factam quidam auctores sunt: e qua regione abduxisset legiones, extemplo inde rebellatum, magnoque eum postea proelio ad montem Chaunum cum Celtiberis a prima luce ad sextam horam diei signis collatis pugnasse, multos utrimque cecidisse; §40.50.3nec aliud magnopere, cur vicisse crederes, fecisse Romanos, nisi quod postero die lacessierint proelio manentes intra vallum: §40.50.4spolia per totum diem legisse; tertio die proelio maiore iterum pugnatum, et tum demum haud dubie victos Celtiberos castraque eorum capta et direpta esse.
Some authors state that those surrenders of the towns were not made with good faith: from whichever region he had withdrawn the legions, rebellion immediately broke out there, and afterwards he fought a great battle with the Celtiberians near Mount Chaunus from dawn until the sixth hour of the day in a pitched battle, and many fell on both sides; nor did the Romans do anything else of great importance to make one believe they had won, except that on the following day they provoked to battle those remaining within the rampart; they spent the whole day collecting spoils; on the third day, another larger battle was fought, and only then were the Celtiberians decisively defeated and their camp captured and plundered.
§40.50.5viginti duo milia hostium eo die esse caesa, plus trecentos captos, parem fere equorum numerum, et signa militaria septuaginta duo.
On that day, twenty-two thousand of the enemy were slain, more than three hundred captured, along with almost an equal number of horses, and seventy-two military standards.
inde debellatum, veramque pacem, non fluxa, ut ante, fide Celtiberos fecisse.
From then on, the war was brought to an end, and the Celtiberians made a true peace, not with unstable faith as before.
§40.50.6eadem aestate et L. Postumium in Hispania ulteriore bis cum Vaccaeis egregie pugnasse scribunt: §40.50.7ad triginta et quinque milia hostium occidisse et castra expugnasse.
In the same summer, they write that Lucius Postumius also fought twice with outstanding success against the Vaccaei in Farther Spain: he slew up to thirty-five thousand of the enemy and captured their camp.
propius vero est serius in provinciam pervenisse, quam ut ea aestate potuerit res gerere.
But it is closer to the truth that he arrived too late in the province to have been able to conduct operations that summer.