These terms a victorious enemy dictates.

These, though harsh and grievous, your condition commends to you.

Indeed I do not despair, when the power of every thing is given him, that he will remit something from these terms.

But even these I think you ought rather to endure, than suffer, by the rights of war, yourselves to be slaughtered, your wives and children to be ravished and dragged into captivity before your faces." 14.

When an assembly of the people, by the gradual crowding round of the multitude, had mingled with the senate to hear these proposals, the chief men suddenly withdrawing before an answer was returned, and throwing all the gold and silver collected, both from public and private stores, into a fire hastily kindled for that purpose, the greater part flung themselves also into it.