Gaul after the defeat and organized a united Gallic army of 40,000 men against Rome in 200 BC, sacking the city of Placentia before being defeated and killed by Rome at the Battle of Cremona. On the other hand, a part of the surviving Hispanic mercenaries continued the journey and eventually reached Hannibal. Casualties Polybius gave 10,000 killed for Hasdrubal's army and an unspecified number of prisoners. Six elephants were killed and four captured. The Romans lost 2,000 killed. Livy estimates 8,000 Roman and allied killed, possibly not contradicting Polybius, with the Carthaginians losing 56,000 killed and 5,400 captured. Livy's figure for prisoners is generally accepted by modern historians, but the number of Carthaginian deaths is not taken seriously. Total Carthaginian casualties were probably around 15,400, including 10,000 killed and 5,400 captured. A large number of Carthaginian officers were killed and many of the rest captured. In literature F. L. Lucas's short story "The Fortune of Carthage" (Athenaeum, 28 January 1921) is about the battle's prelude, from Claudius Nero's viewpoint. It focuses on the dilemma the Roman consul faced in Apulia on intercepting Hasdrubal's letter to Hannibal. The closing section gives Hannibal's perspective in the aftermath of the battle. The story was admired by T. E. Lawrence. See also Monte Nerone References Sources Classical writers Appian: Roman History (print: Penguin Books, 1987, ) Eutropius: Roman History Frontinus: The Strategemata (print: Book 1 as The Rise of Rome, Oxford University Press, 1998, ) Polybius: The Rise of the Roman Empire at LacusCurtius (print: Harvard University Press, 1927. (Translation by W. R. Paton)) Valerius Maximus: Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings, Bk. VII Modern Writers Bernard W. Henderson, The Campaign of the Metaurus English Historical Review Vol. 13 (1898), pp. 417–38, 625–42 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/11*.html Polybios: The Histories, Book 11 p. 235, Text n.3 (3.)"Not fewer than ten thousand Carthaginians and Gauls fell in the battle, while the Roman loss amounted to two thousand. Some of the Carthaginians of distinction were captured and the rest were slain." Metaurus Metaurus Metaurus Metaurus