 Not only did they have none, but these particular [tribes] did not set any value on those metals.In his account of the Lusitanian War, Appian wrote that Lucullus and Servius Sulpicius Galba, a praetor who was in charge of the troops in Hispania Ulterior and was campaigning against a Lusitanian rebellion, conducted a joint pincer operation against Lusitania.According to Appian they gradually depopulated it.