 His stratagems and manoeuvres were accounted as original, talented, and successful; and the plans of his battles were arranged with expert skill.He managed to set tribe against tribe, benefited himself from native deceitfulness, and took native mercenaries into his pay.The details of the campaign, as related by Livy, and illustrated by the incidental anecdotes of Plutarch, are full of horror and they make clear that Cato reduced Hispania Citerior to subjection with great speed and little mercy.