Severus again attacks Clodius Albinus to the northwest of the city, defeating the latter’s army on the nineteenth of February 197 in the bloody and decisive Battle of Lugdunum.

Dio Cassius describes three hundred thousand men involved in the battle: although this is one of the largest battles involving Roman armies known, this number is assumed to be an exaggeration.

The actual size of Severus’s army may be closer to seventy-five thousand men, mostly composed of Illyrian, Moesian and Dacian legions.

Albinus commits suicide in a house near the Rhône; his head is sent to Rome as a warning to his supporters.

His defeated cohorts are dissolved and the victorious legions punish those in Lugdunum who had supported Albinus, by confiscation, banishment, or execution.

The city is plundered or at least severely damaged by the battle.

Legio I Minervia will remain camped in Lugdunum from 198 to 211.

Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that Lugdunum never fully recovers from the devastation of this battle.

Severus departs for Italy and the East to resume the war against Parthia.