They fought upon that day till the ground was heaped with their dead, while, as the foremost fell thick and fast, their comrades, says the Roman, sprang upon their piled-up bodies, and hurled their javelins at the enemy as from a hill.

They fought like men to whom life without liberty was a curse.

They were not defeated, but exterminated.

Of many thousand fighting men went home but five hundred.

Upon reaching the place of refuge where they had bestowed their women and children, Caesar found, after the battle, that there were but three of their senators left alive.