This text is part of: Table of Contents:  Of the four divisions
into which the Keltiberians are separated, the most powerful are
the Aruaci, situated to the east and south, near to the
Carpetani and the sources of the Tagus. Their most renowned city
is Numantia. They showed their valour in the war of twenty
years, waged by the Keltiberians against the Romans; for many
armies of the Romans, together with their generals, were
destroyed; and in the end the Numantians, besieged within their
city, endured the famine with constancy, till, reduced to a very
small number, they were compelled to surrender the place. The
Lusones are also situated to the east, and likewise border on
the sources of the Tagus. Segeda and Pallantia1 are cities of
the Aru- aci. Numantia is distant from Cæsar Augusta,2 situated
as we have said upon the Ebro, about 800 stadia. Near to
Segobriga and Bilbilis,3 likewise cities of the Keltiberians,
was fought the battle between Metellus and Sertorius. Polybius,
describing the people and countrie