Dionysius, however, makes no mention of two battles at Asculum, nor of an admitted defeat of the Romans, but says that the two armies fought once for all until sunset and then at last separated; Pyrrhus, he says, was wounded in the arm by a javelin, and also had his baggage plundered by the Daunians; and there fell, on the side of Pyrrhus and on that of the Romans, over fifteen thousand men.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :
perpetrator: Since this happened during the battle of Asculum, we assume that the Daunians mentioned here belonged to the consular army of that year. The names of the consuls in command are taken from the New Pauly.
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/decius-e312190 date: The date is taken from the New Pauly.
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/decius-e312190
