1The Romans, although the land was the enemy's and they saw an armed line stretched out along the whole shore, pursued the panic-stricken enemy fleet without hesitation, and all the ships that had not either shattered their prows by running against the shore or stuck their keels fast in the shallows they tied by the sterns and towed out to sea; they took some twenty-five ships out of forty. 3Nor was this the finest part of that victory, but rather that by one light engagement they had become masters of the whole sea along that coast. 4So they sailed on with the fleet to Onusa; 4a landing was made from the ships.
4When they had taken the city by storm and plundered it once taken, they make from there for Carthage, and having laid waste all the country round, they finally set fire also to the buildings adjoining the wall and gates. 6From there the fleet, now heavy with booty, came to Longuntica, where a great quantity of esparto had been collected by Hasdrubal for naval use. 6Taking as much as was enough for their needs, they burned all the rest. 7Nor did they sail only along the coast of the mainland, but they crossed over to the island of Ebusus. 7There, after the city that is the capital of the island had been attacked for two days in vain with the utmost effort, when they saw that time was being wasted fruitlessly on a vain hope, they turned to ravaging the land, and when, having plundered and burned a number of villages and won greater booty than from the mainland, they had returned to their ships, envoys came to Scipio from the Balearic Islands seeking peace.
10From there the fleet turned back and they returned to the nearer parts of the province, where envoys of all the peoples who live this side of the Ebro, and of many from farthest Spain, came flocking. 11But the peoples who truly became subject to Roman rule and authority by giving hostages numbered more than a hundred and twenty. 12So, confident enough in his land forces as well, the Roman advanced as far as the pass of Castulo. 12Hasdrubal withdrew into Lusitania and nearer the Ocean.