Of the LXVIII. booke.
MArcus Antonius the Pretour persecuted the rovers at sea, and chased them as far as into Cili∣cia. C. Manlius the Consul manfully defended the campe, assailed with all most forcible means by the Theutones and * 1.1 Ambrones. Afterwards in two battailes one after another about * 1.2 Aquae Sextiae, hee utterly defeated those enemies: where (by report) were slaine two hundred thousand, & nine∣tie thousand taken prisoners. Marius in his absence was created Consull now the fift time: and when a triumph was offered unto him, he differred and put it off, untill he had made a full and finall conquest also of the Cimbrians. The Cimbrians repelled and drave from the Alpes Q. Catulus the Pro-consull, who had beset the narrow gullet of the Alpes, and kept a castle highly mounted over the river Athesis, which he now abandoned: and when by their valor they had cleered the passage, they pursued the Pro-consull with his armie and passed over into Italie, where in battaile they were over throwne by the same Catulus and C. Marius, who had ioyned their forces together: In which (they say) one hundred and for∣tie thousand men were slaine, and 60000 taken prisoners. Marius was honourably received at his re∣turne with a generall accord of the whole cittie: and whereas two triumphes were offered unto him, hee was content with one. The principall peeres and nobles of the cittie, who a long time before had envied him as a man newly start up, risen, and advaunced to so great honours, confessed now that the common weale by him was preserved. Publicius Metellus for murdering his owne mother, was the first man sowed up in a leather bag and so throwne into the sea. Here is recorded how the sacred shields Ancilia stirred of themselves with a great rusling noise before the Cimbrians warre was finished. Finally this booke comprehendeth the warres betweene the two kings of Syria.