Meanwhile, Pompey had fled after being bested by Sertorius, and the scattered forces of Afranius were attacked by the victorious Sertorians.

Afranius was present during Pompey's campaigns against Marian supporter Quintus Sertorius.

Afranius held until Sertorius ' attention was drawn away by Pompey's attack into Sertorius ' own left.

Contemptuously calling Pompey Sulla's pupil, Sertorius proved himself more than a match for his adversaries: he razed Lauron, a city allied to Rome, after a battle in which Pompey's forces were ambushed and defeated ; he nearly captured Pompey at the battle of Sucro when Pompey decided to fight Sertorius without waiting for Metellus Pius ; but was indecisively beaten at Saguntum.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

Quintus Sertorius, while a general in Lusitania, had a tame white stag which he had raised nearly from birth.

They were forced to raise the siege when Sertorius approached, after which Pius returned to Gaul.

Born in 95 BC into the prominent Caecilii Metelli family, a ( fictional ) nephew of Metellus Pius, Decius began his career serving as a military legate and scout commander, in the civil war against Quintus Sertorius, during which he received a scar from an Iberian spear.

There it can be seen how the long piracy wars were a development out of the First Mithridatic War and especially of the alliance between Mithridates VI and Sertorius, which in joining those two threats into a unity much larger than its parts had the serious potential of overturning Roman power.

Meanwhile, Pompey was fighting in Hispania against Quintus Sertorius, the last effective Marian general, without notable advantage.

Pompey succeeded only when Sertorius was assassinated by one of his own commanders.

* Quintus Sertorius was assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perperna, who was in turn defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius, thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.

The city is a possible site of the battle in 75 BCE where Metellus was victorius over the general of Sertorius, Hirtuleius.

A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis ( Tangier ), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus ; digging it open, his men found giant bones ; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and " helped to magnify the tomb's reputation ".

Quintus Sertorius ( c. 126 BC – 73 BC ) was a Roman statesman and general, born in Nursia, in Sabine territory.

Sertorius sought to hold Hispania by sending an army, under Julius Salinator, to fortify the pass through the Pyrenees ; however, Sulla's forces, under the command of Gaius Annius, broke through after Salinator was killed by treachery.

Brave, noble, and gifted with eloquence, Sertorius was just the man to impress them favourably, and the native warriors, whom he organized, spoke of him as the " new Hannibal.

Also that year, Pompey was sent to help Metellus conquer Hispania and finish Sertorius off.

Though he was still able to win significant victories, Sertorius was losing the war, and his authority on his men had declined.

Sertorius was in league with the Cilician pirates, who had bases all across the Mediterranean, was negotiating with the formidable Mithridates VI of Pontus, and was in communication with the insurgent slaves in Italy.

Subsequently, when Pompeius Magnus was given proconsular imperium to fight against Quintus Sertorius, the Senate made a point of distinguishing that he was not actually being appointed a promagistrate: he was appointed to act not in place of a consul ( pro consule ), but on behalf of the consuls ( pro consulibus ).

* Battle of the Baetis River: A force of Democratic exiles under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War, Quintus Metellus Pius takes command on behalf of Sulla.

Serving under Gaius Marius in 102 BC, Sertorius succeeded in spying on the wandering German tribes that had defeated Caepio.

* Sertorian War ( 83 – 72 BC ), between Rome and the provinces of Hispania under the leadership of Quintus Sertorius, a supporter of Gaius Marius-Sullan victory.

Quintus Sertorius, a rebellious Roman general, helped by the Lusitanians of Lacobriga ( who had been oppressed under Roman Generals and members of Lucius Cornelius Sulla party ), successfully defeated the Roman army of Caecilius Metellus Pius probably at nearby Monte Molião.

He served under Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and Pompey against Sertorius in Hispania ( the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar and Portugal ).

In 72 BCE Caesar's man, Balbus, acquired his Roman citizenship for service under Pompeius against Sertorius in Spain < ref > Cicero, < i > pro Balbo </ i > 5.

** Sertorius ' revolt in Hispania, from 83 to 72 BC, under the leadership of Sertorius.

** Battle of the Baetis River, where rebel forces under Quintus Sertorius defeat the legal Roman forces of Lucius Fulfidias, governor of Hispania Ulterior.

When Sertorius moved his forces to counter this, Afranius led an attack against the Sertorian right.

** Battle of the Sucro where Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Lucius Afranius defeat Quintus Sertorius.

** Quintus Sertorius ' second in command, Hirtuleius, defeats the governor of Hispania Citerior.

** Marcus Perperna Vento assumes the command of Quintus Sertorius ' armies, but is swiftly defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

The only other possible general for such an important command, Pompey, was in Gaul, marching to Hispania to help crush the revolt led by Sertorius.

Eventually, “ Cinna had had enough of murder ”, and he and Quintus Sertorius, a general who supported Marius and later governed Spain, had their troops ambush the sleeping Bardyiae, ending their reign of terror.

* Quintus Sertorius re-enter Iberia with a tiny army ( 2, 600 men ) and opens a successful campaign against the Sullan forces.

He joints with Quintus Metellus Pius to suppress the revolt of Quintus Sertorius, but is first unsuccessful.

In the winter of 75 – 74 BC, the area served as a camp for the Roman general Pompey in the war against Sertorius.

* Sertorius, Roman general ( d. 72 BC )

After five days, Cinna and the populares general Quintus Sertorius ordered their more disciplined troops to kill the rampaging soldiers.

He served with Pompey during his Iberian campaigns against Sertorius in the late 70s BC, and remained in his service right through to the Civil War.

His grandfather served in the war against Sertorius with Pompey, through whose influence he obtained Roman citizenship ; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor.

Upon his return to Rome he ran for tribune, but Lucius Cornelius Sulla thwarted his efforts ( for reasons unknown ), causing Sertorius to oppose him.

Sertorius now declared for Cinna and the Populares.