This battle is also known from several other ancient authors, though not in the same detail as Livy's account. The battle is mentioned in fragments preserved from Dionysius and Appian's histories. Frontinus in his "Stratagems" lists twice how P. Decius' saved the army of Cornelius Cossus The anonymous author of the 4th century AD "De viris illustribus" attributes the acts of P. Decius to the Battle of Mount Gaurus. Cicero writes in his "De Divinatione", that according to the annals, when Decius rushed boldly into battle and was warned to be more cautious, he replied that he had dreamt he would win great fame by dying in the midst of the enemy, foreshadowing his famous later death at the Battle of Vesuvius in 340 BC. This detail shows that some material on this battle existed which Livy did not include in his account.