The Battle of Pydna

According to legend, Paulus facing east, stalled his deployment until the afternoon when the sun would be in the eyes of the Macedonians. The Romans were able to send individual manopoles through the breaks in the Macedonian line and not so much flank them as eat them from the inside out. At least 25,000 died at Pydna, while the Romans lost maybe a thousand. Perseus was paraded through Roman chains at Paulus' triumph, and then banished to exile in a small Italian village where he lived a miserable existence and died in obscurity.