Book 10
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Scipio did not think it advisable to pursue Hasdrubal at once, for fear of being attacked by the other Carthaginian generals; but he gave up the enemy’s camp to his men to pillage.
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Next morning he collected the prisoners, amounting to ten thousand foot and more than two thousand horse, and busied himself in making arrangements about them. All the Iberians of that district, who were in alliance at that time with the Carthaginians, came in and submitted to the Roman obedience, and in addressing Scipio called him king. The first to do this and to bow the knee before him had been Edeco, and the next Andobales. Scipio’s self-restraint. On these occasions Scipio had passed the word over without remark; but after the battle, when all alike addressed him by that title, his attention was drawn to it; and he therefore summoned the Iberians to a meeting, and told them that he quite wished to be called a man of royal liberality by them all, and to be so in the truest sense, but that he had no wish to be a king, nor to be called one by any one; they should address him as general.
