Diodorus Siculus

“ On the other hand, the enemy out-winging the Romans, their strongest and ablest soldiers (whether on purpose or by chance is uncertain) fronted those weaker and inexperienced soldiers on the hills. And now the trumpets on both sides sounded a charge. Whereupon the armies ran one upon another with a great shout; and those Gauls that set upon them that were upon the hills presently cleared the place of them, who fled in great confusion to their own men into the plain ”

“ At the same time when Dionysius lay at the siege of Rhegium, the Gauls who lay beyond the Alps passed over those straits with a numerous army, and possessed themselves of all the country between the Apenine hills and the Alps, driving thence the Tyrrhenians, the natural inhabitants. Some say they were colonies sent thither from twelve cities in Tyrrhenia [3] ; others say they were Pelasgians, who, before the Trojan war, fled out of Thessaly at the time of Deucalion's flood, and settled themselves in these parts. ”

“ Callisthenes the historian began his Grecian memoirs from this year, wherein the peace was made between the Grecians and Artaxerxes, and ended them with the year the temple of Delphos was taken and rifled by Philomelus the Phocian, comprehending an account of affairs for the space of thirty years in ten books. And now, being come to the peace between Artaxerxes and the Greeks, and the danger threatened to Rome by the Gauls, according to our purpose at the beginning, we shall put an end to this book. ”

“ And at the last they came out of the town, and, like cattle, began to eat the grass that grew under the walls; so that, to supply nature they were forced to feed upon those things proper to the beasts of the field, for want of man's ordinary food. When Dionysius heard what the Rhegians did, he was so far commiserating them, who were sunk in misery below the common condition of mankind, that he added to their affliction, and put in his carriage horses, and other draught cattle, to graze there, where they used to feed, and so ate up all that poor provision which was only left for them. ”

“ Those called the Sinones inhabited the mountain farthest from the sea of all the other mountains, and because the heat was excessive and troublesome to them, they resolved to seek for themselves some more commodious habitations. To this end, they sent forth the ablest of their young men, well armed, to find out some other seats, who, making an interruption into Tyrrhenia [4] with thirty thousand men, wasted and spoiled the territories of the Caulonians.
About this time the Romans sent ambassadors into Tyrrhenia, to gain intelligence what this expedition of the Gauls meant ”

“ But the ambassadors of the Gauls returned to their camp, and declared what answer was given them by the Romans: upon which they were in a great rage, and increased their army with new-raised forces out of their own country. And forthwith marched towards Rome with above seventy thousand men. ”

“ Therefore, many of the ordinary sort removed, with their whole families, to the neighbouring towns and villages; but the city magistrates, encouraging the people, ordered that victuals and all other necessaries should be brought into the capitol, by which means both the castle and capitol were filled not only with meat and provisions, but with silver and gold, and all sorts of rich garments and attire, good of all kinds throughout the whole city being heaped together in this one place ”