<head>The Campaigns against Perseus</head>The first of the officers present who volunteered to lead the force that went to turn the enemy's flank was Scipio Nasica, the son-in‑law of Africanus and afterwards very powerful in the senate,
and next Fabius Maximus, the eldest son of eam, who was still quite a young man, got up and proffered his services.
This pleased Aemilius, who gave them not so many soldiers as Polybius says but as many as Nasica himself says in writing to one of the kings about this exploit.
The Romans offered a strong resistance by the aid of their targets and Ligurian shields.
Walbank Commentary