Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus
- Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus
Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus were the supposed assassins of the Lusitanian leader Viriathus.
In 139 BC, after a long war against the Romans, Viriathus was finally killed in his sleep by Audax (Latin meaning audacious), Ditalcus and Minurus ( Latin meaning diminish ), who had been sent as emissaries to the Romans and had been bribed by Marcus Popillius Lenas. The Roman general Servilius Cipianus had them executed,Fact|date=August 2007 however, declaring "Rome does not pay traitors". According to Appian, Servilius Cipianus had paid them and set them to Rome to collect the rest of the promised payment.
Diodorus says the third killer (Minurus) is called Nicorontes,while Appian calls him Minouros. Another account, of Sextus Aurelius Victor, says that Caepio paid two royal guards (sattellites) to kill Viriathus [ [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ChfrOV80veIC&pg=RA1-PA138&dq=viriathus+satellites&lr= Eutropii historiae Romanae breviarium: ] ]
References
ee also
*Lusitania
*Lusitanian War
*Portugal
*History of Portugal
*Timeline of Portuguese history
**Pre-Roman Western Iberia (Before the 3rd Century BC)
**Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia (3rd Century BC to 4th Century AC)
*Hispania
*Roman Empire
External links
* [http://www.arqueotavira.com/Mapas/Iberia/Populi.htm Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)]
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