The final battle occurred at Lugdunum, a large, prosperous city, where Albinus had taken refuge and remained, while he sent his army out to fight the battle. A fierce clash took place in which the fortune of victory for a long time remained evenly in the balance for both sides. The bravery and bloodthirsty courage of the British are certainly not inferior to that of the Illyrians. The result was that neither of these two excellent armies could easily be routed.
Edition :
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume I: Books 1-4. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 454. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume II: Books 5-8. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 455. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
