 His sons Gnaeus and Sextus raised an army there in 45 BC before being defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Munda.While Gnaeus was captured and executed, Sextus escaped via Carteia's port and fled north to the Pyrenees.Little is known of the remainder of Carteia's Roman history, but it appears to have been sacked by the Visigoths around 409 AD, by which time it was probably already in decline.