《资治通鉴·汉纪·汉纪二十一》
贰师将军李广利，丧失五万军队的性命，耗费了亿万钱的费用，经过四年之久的辛劳，而仅仅获得三十匹好马而已，虽然砍下大宛王国国王母寡的人头，还不足以抵消耗费，他自身的罪恶很多。但武帝认为，这是万里之外的征讨，不追究过失，于是赐封两位侯爵，擢升三位卿，提拔二千石一百余人。
贰师将军李广利，捐五万之师，靡亿万之费，经四年之劳，而仅获骏马三十匹，虽斩宛王母寡之首，犹不足以复费，其私罪恶甚多；孝武以为万里征伐，不录其过，遂封拜两侯、三卿、二千石百有馀人。
General Li Guangli of the Second Army lost fifty thousand troops and spent millions of money. It took him four years of hard work to win only thirty good horses. Even though he cut off the head of the widow of the king of Dawan, it still could not make up for the consumption, and he himself bore huge sins. But Emperor Wu believed that this was a battle waged tens of thousands of miles away, and would not pursue faults, so he enfeoffed two marquisates, promoted three ministers, and promoted more than one hundred and twenty two thousand-shi officials.