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History| Appian's History of Rome: The Spanish Wars (§§71-75)
Alexandria (c.95-c.165) is the author of a Roman History and one
of the most underestimated of all Greek historians. Although
only his books on the Roman Civil Wars survive in their
entirety, large parts of other books have also come down to us.
His account of the Spanish Wars is fortunately among these
better preserved parts. It describes all Roman conflicts on the
Iberian peninsula from the moment on which they conquered the
Mediterranean coast during the war against Barca until the final
pacification by the emperor Augustus. The translation was made
by Horace White; footnotes and additions in green by Jona
Lendering. |[§71]  Emulating the example of Viriathus, many
other guerilla bands made incursions into Lusitania and ravaged
it. [Praetor] Sextus  Junius Brutus, who was sent against them,
despaired of following them through the extensive country
bounded by the navigable rivers Tagus,