The Ligurians Resist Roman Intervention
On the complaint of the ambassadors of Marseilles as
The Ligurians prevent the commissioners from landing, and wound Flaminius who had already landed, and drive him to his ship. |
to their injuries sustained at the hands of the
Ligurians, the Senate at once appointed a
commission, consisting of Flaminius, Popilius
Laenas, and Lucius Pupius, who sailed with the
envoys of Marseilles, and landed in the territory
of the Oxybii at the town of Aegitna. The
Ligurians, hearing that they were come to bid
them raise the siege, descended upon them as they lay at anchor,
and prevented the rest from disembarking; but finding Flaminius
already disembarked and his baggage landed, they began by
ordering him to leave the country, and on his refusal they began
to plunder his baggage. His slaves and freedmen resisting this,
and trying to prevent them, they began to use violence and
attacked them with their weapons. When Flaminius came to
the rescue of his men they wounded him, and killed two of
his servants, and chased the rest down to their ship, so that
Flaminius only escaped with his life by cutting away the hawsers
and anchors.
War ordered with the Oxybii and Deciatae, B. C. 154. |
He was conveyed to Marseilles and his wound
attended to with all possible care; but when the
Senate was informed of the transaction, it immediately ordered one of the consuls, Quintus
Opimius, to lead an army against the Oxybii and Deciatae.
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