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Rome conquered the central plateau (II): A TALE OF VIRIAT

From the point of view of his opponents, the Roman conquest was seen from many different angles. There were communities that were in the Roman penetration loss of their independence, their institutions, their ancestral culture. Others regarded the Romans as the powerful ally who would help them settle once and for all traditionally held grudges against his pesky neighbors (when not annoying the neighbors?). Some sectors realized that the Roman presence was the only authority able to carry out a fair distribution of land. By contrast, others felt threatened their freedom to loot and plunder with impunity to those who had forced them to lie to the mountain or just any prosperous and peaceful population. There were some that even fluctuated between the pro-Roman and anti-Roman and ended up in a situation similar to the protagonist of a little story that Diodorus attributed Viriato:

" ... like the inhabitants of Tucci (Martos, Jaén) not faithfully observe its commitments, but rather, as soon bowed to the Romans as his prpia, told them some Viriato fable, not without wit, in order to highlight the inconsistency while their cause. He told them what happened to a man and neither young nor old, who took two wives, the youngest, with the desire to make more like themselves in appearance of age, he was removing the pipes of the head hair, while, for the same purpose, the older blacks tore, so that, before long, shaved by both Finally he stood bald. The same was to happen also the inhabitants of Tucci, because as the Romans who killed the militants in his party and the Lusitano, in turn, killed those who were listed as his enemies, would soon be depopulated city. "

The raids of the Lusitanian subsequently acquired by the province particularly intense in the year 155, when large groups of Lusitano, vetones and allies fell upon the valley of the Guadalquivir, led by a warlord called Punic. After defeating several Roman armies, crossed the province to reach the Mediterranean coast, where the defenders killed a Roman city of Punic casual way, with a stone in the head.
The Lusitanian elected a new chief, Cesario, and continued the war. Given the successes of the Lusitano, the Celts began to rise. Rome decided to crack down the revolt. Since it was not advisable to wait until 15 March (date began the year in which Roman and chose the two consuls), it was decided to advance both elections as the beginning of the year the first day of January (FIRST IN HISTORY: hence it is this and no other day that opens every year for many centuries).