A numerous army of Gauls laid siege to Cremona. The prætor Lucius
Furius marched to the succour of the allies of the Romans, in the
absence of the consul. He gave battle the moment he arrived. The Gauls
fought bravely, but at length took to flight, and retired in disorder
to their camp. The Romans followed them thither, attacked the camp, and
took it. Out of thirty-five thousand combatants, scarcely six thousand
were saved. Eighty standards and two hundred chariots filled with
booty were the trophies and the ornaments of this triumph. Amilcar,
a Carthaginian general, who had joined the barbarians, fell in this
engagement, together with three of the most distinguished Gaulish
leaders.