About forty thousand Celts were slain and at least ten thousand taken prisoners, among them the king Concolitanus.
The other king, Aneroëstes, escaped with a few followers to a certain place where he put an end to his life and to those of his friends.
The Roman Consul collected the spoils and sent them to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>, returning the booty of the Gauls to the owners.
With his legions he traversed <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Liguria&groupId=689&placeId=1259">Liguria</a> and invaded the territory of the Boii, from whence, after letting his legions pillage to their heart\'s content, he returned at their head in a few days to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>.
He sent to ornament the Capitol the standards and necklaces (the gold necklets worn by the Gauls),
but the rest of the spoil and the prisoners he used for his entry into <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> and the adornment of his triumph.
were destroyed these Celts during whose invasion, the most serious that had ever occurred, all the Italians and especially the Romans had been exposed to great and terrible peril.
This success encouraged the Romans to hope that they would be able entirely to expel the Celts from the plain of the Po and both the Consuls of the next year, Quintus Fulvius and Titus Manlius, were sent against them with a formidable expeditionary force.
They surprised and terrified the Boii, compelling them to submit to <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a>,
but the rest of the campaign had no practical results whatever, owing to the very heavy rains, and an epidemic which broke out among them.
Walbank Commentary