1Gladdened by this vision, he took his forces across the Ebro in three divisions, having sent men ahead to win over with gifts the minds of the Gauls where the army was to be led through, and to reconnoitre the passes of the Alps. 1He led ninety thousand infantry and twelve thousand cavalry across the Ebro. 2Then he subdued the Ilergetes, the Bargusii and the Ausetani, and Lacetania, which lies beneath the Pyrenees, and put Hanno in command of all this coast, so that the passes which join the Spains to the Gauls should be in his power. 3Ten thousand infantry and a thousand cavalry were given to Hanno as a garrison for holding the region.
4After the army began to be led through the pass of the Pyrenees and a more certain rumour of the war with Rome spread among the barbarians, three thousand Carpetanian infantry turned back from the march. 4It was well known that they had been moved not so much by the war as by the length of the journey and the insurmountable crossing of the Alps. 5Hannibal, because it was hazardous to recall them or keep them back by force, lest the fierce spirits of the rest too should be provoked, sent home more than seven thousand men whom he had perceived to be themselves weary of service, pretending that the Carpetani too had been dismissed by him.