Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45
William A. McDevitte, Sen. Class. Mod. Ex. Schol. A.B.T.C.D., Ed.

43. While the memory of the Macedonian triumph was remaining not only in the minds but almost before the eyes of the people, Lucius Anicius triumphed over king Gentius and the Illyrians, on the day of the festival of Quirinus. [2] These exhibitions were considered rather as similar than equal. The commander himself was inferior; Anicius was not to be compared in renown with Aemilius; a praetor, in dignity of office, with a consul; neither could Gentius be set on a level with Perseus, nor the Illyrians with the Macedonians; nor the spoils, nor the money, nor the presents obtained in one country, with those obtained in the other. [3] But though the late triumph outshone the present, yet the latter, when considered by itself, appeared very far from contemptible. [4] For Anicius had, in the space of a few days, entirely subdued the Illyrian nation, though they were remarkable for their courage both on land and sea, and confident in the strength of their position; he had also taken their king and the whole royal family. [5] He carried in his triumph many military standards, and much spoil of other sorts, with all the royal furniture; and also twenty-seven pounds' weight of gold, and nineteen of silver, besides three thousand denariuses,¹ and, in Illyrian money, the amount of one hundred and twenty thousand.² [6] [p. 2172]Before his chariot were led Gentius, with his queen and children; Caravantius, the king's brother, and several Illyrian nobles. [7] Out of the booty he gave forty-five denariuses³ to each footman, double that sum to a centurion, triple it to a horseman; to the Latin allies the like sums as to natives, and to the seamen the same as to the soldiers. [8] The soldiers attended this triumph with greater demonstrations of joy than that of Aemilius, and the general was celebrated in abundance of songs. Valerius Antias says, that twenty thousand sesterces⁴ were produced by the sale of the booty, besides the gold and silver carried to the treasury; but, as no sources appeared from which such a sum could be raised, I have set down my authority instead of asserting the fact. [9] King Gentius, with his queen, children, and brother, was, pursuant to an order of the senate, taken to Spoletium, to be kept there in custody; the rest of the prisoners were thrown into prison at Rome; but the people of Spoletium refusing the charge, the royal family was removed to Iguvium. [10] There remained of the Illyrian spoil, two hundred and twenty barks, which Quintus Cassius, by order of the senate, distributed among the Corcyreans, Apollonians, and Dyrrachians.