Metaurus

It has also been seen, how it happened to Hasdrubal when he was assaulted in the Marca [Metaurus River] by Claudius Nero, together with the other Roman Consul, that a Captain obliged either to fight or flee, always elects to fight, it seeming to him in this way, even if most doubtful, to be able to win, but in the other to lose in any case.

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That river had been so regarded for a very long time, but the last formal fixing of the boundary had been at the Metaurus River.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Metaurus, Hasdrubal's march was withstood by a large Roman army.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

The two armies met on the banks of the river Metaurus.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

Hamilcar raised in Spain, and led across the Pyrenees and the Alps to perish on the Metaurus.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

The Roman citizens, two hundred years before Christ, met here the messengers who announced the defeat of Asdrubal on the Metaurus at the end of the second Punic war.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

In this division are the rivers Tiber, Arnus, Liris, and Volturnus, which empty into the Mediterranean, and the Metaurus, Aesis, and Aternus, which empty into the Adriatic.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

Even the thrilling march of Hasdrubal, ending in the dramatic catastrophe of the Metaurus, is hardly given its full weight.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Noteworthy remains are the statue of the god Vertumnus; the Furlo Pass, constructed by the Emperor Vespasian (70-76) to shorten the passage of that mountain; and the bridge of Trajan (115) near Calmazzo, and that of Diocletian (292), both over the Metaurus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Diocese; S. Angelo in Vado is a city in the Marches, on the site of the ancient "Tifernum Metaurense", a town of the Umbrian Senones, near the River Metaurus, believed to have been destroyed by the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913