Hirtuleius

As prudent as always, Metellus Pius made his men dig and build clad in their armor-an extra burden no legionary welcomed-but, as their centurions told them, Hirtuleius was in the neighborhood.

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Hirtuleius had beaten him to Segovia nonetheless-not very surprising.

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And it was plain to Hirtuleius that in order to cover the front presented by forty thousand superbly armed Spanish soldiers in top condition, Metellus Pius had been obliged to thin out his center.

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Now Pompey had entered upon the Spanish stage, empowered by the Senate (or rather, by Philippus) with an equal imperium, and quite sure his own talents far outshone Sertorius, Hirtuleius and Metellus Pius combined.

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Nor did it make any difference to them that his motives for this care had been entirely practical, founded not in love for them but in the desire to beat Hirtuleius.

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His men wilting, Hirtuleius stood no chance of winning.

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And always it was you Sertorius himself attacked, whereas I had the luck to face first Hirtuleius-a good man, but not in Sertorius's class-and then Perperna-a pure mediocrity.

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But Metellus Pius marched more quickly than Hirtuleius thought he could, was already close to Italica and the Baetis when Hirtuleius and the Spanish army were still a hard day's slog away.

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A letter from Metellus Pius informed him that after taking delivery of his forty warships and three thousand talents of gold in Dianium, Sertorius himself had departed into Lusitania with Perperna to help Hirtuleius train more men to fill the reduced ranks of the Spanish army, leaving Herennius in charge of Osca.

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He would (the informants were telling Hirtuleius not many days later) cross the Baetis from Italica to Hispalis, then move up the Singilis River toward the massif of the Solorius, cross it on its northwestern flank at Acci, proceed thence to Basti, and so down onto the Campus Spartarius through Eliocroca.

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