 At the Rhône, the Cimbri clashed with the Roman armies.Discord between the Roman commanders, the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, hindered Roman coordination and so the Cimbri succeeded in first defeating the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus and later inflicted a devastating defeat on Caepio and Maximus at the Battle of Arausio.The Romans lost as many as 80,000 men, according to Livy; Mommsen (in his "History of Rome") thought that excluded auxiliary cavalry and non-combatants who brought the total loss closer to 112,000.