osthumius, which invaded their territory. When
Hasdrubal led his ill-fated expedition to strew their bodies on the
Italian plains, he was accompanied by large bands of those brave
adventurers; and when Carthage, making a last effort to succour her
general, disembarked 14,000 men under the command of Mago, Hannibal's
brother, at Genoa, numerous bodies of Gauls flocked to his standards.
And this general, though unable to effect his junction with Hannibal,
yet maintained his ground for ten years, till at last, defeated in the
territory of the Insubrians, he retired to Genoa. There he received
orders to return to the defence of Africa:--

"His brother also, recalled by the Carthaginian senate, was obliged
to embark at the other extremity of Italy. The Gaulish and Ligurian
soldiers, who had faithfully served Hannibal during seventeen
years, abandoned him not in his days of misfortune; re-united to
their compatriots who had followed Mago, they formed still a third
part of the Carthaginian army at Zama, in the celebrated day which
terminated that long war to the advantage of the Romans, and
displayed to the world the genius of Hannibal humbled before the
fortune of Scipio. The ferocity with which the Gauls fought has
been recorded by the historian: 'They showed themselves,' says
Titus Livy, 'inflamed with that inborn hate against the Roman
people, peculiar to their race.'"--(I. 310-311.)

The war in Cisalpine Gaul did not cease with the departure of Hannibal.
Under the orders of Carthaginian officer, the Gauls again took the
field--Placentia fell beneath their arms; but they received a severe
defeat from L. Furius, in the year 200 B.C., when the Carthaginian
general Amilcar perished. From this period till the year 191 B.C., the
Gaulish nations were involved in a constant succession of wars, in
which, though occasionally victorious, they were upon the whole
unsuccessful. Exposed to the incessant incursions of the Romans, their
strength gradually wasted away; each year left them in a state more
exhausted and unfit to renew the war than the preceding. Nation after
nation laid down their arms in despair, till at last the Boian
confederacy stood alone in its resistance of a foreign yoke; but their
ravaged lands and reduced numbers were unequal to the struggle, and
when, in the year 190 B.C., the Roman armies advanced into the heart of
their exhausted territory, the few re