When he thought that conditions were as he desired he opposed his velites to the enemy who were drawn up at the foot of the hill, and himself advancing from his camp with four cohorts in close order against those who had come down into the valley fell upon the enemy's infantry.
Simultaneously Gaius Laelius with the cavalry advanced along the ridges which descended from the camp to the valley and took the Spanish cavalry in the rear, keeping them confined to defending themselves from him. In the long run the enemy's infantry,
thus deprived of the services of the cavalry, relying on wos support they had come down into the valley, found themselves hard pressed and in difficulties.
The cavalry suffered no less; for confined as they were in a narrow space and incapacitated from action, more of them destroyed each other than were destroyed by the enemy, their own infantry pressing on their flank, the enemy's infantry on their front and his cavalry hovering round their rear.
Such being the conditions of the battle nearly all those who had come down into the valley were cut to pieces, those on the hill escaping.
The latter were light-armed infantry forming the third part of the whole army, and Andobales in their company succeeded in saving his life and escaping to a strong place.
Having thus completely executed his task in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Spain&groupId=983&placeId=1735">Spain</a> Scipio reached Tarraco full of joy, taking home as a gift to his country a splendid triumph and a glorious victory.
He was anxious not to arrive in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> too late for the consular elections, and after regulating everything in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Spain&groupId=983&placeId=1735">Spain</a> and handing over his army to Junius Silanus and Marcius he sailed to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> with Laelius and his other friends.
Walbank Commentary