Sertorius

To begin with, when the Cimbri and Teutones invaded Gaul,[*](In 105 B.C.) he served under Caepio, and after the Romans had been defeated and put to flight, though he had lost his horse and had been wounded in the body, he made his way across the Rhone, swimming, shield and breastplate and all, against a strongly adverse current; so sturdy was his body and so inured to hardships by training.