After his victories, the consul C.Sextius, seated at his tribunal, was selling his prisoners by auction, when one of them came up to him and said, "I have always liked and served the Romans; and for that reason I have often incurred outrage and danger at the hands of my countrymen." The consul had him set free,--him and his family,--and even gave him leave to point out amongst the captives any for whom he would like to procure the same kindness.

At his request nine hundred were released.

The man's name was Crato, a Greek name, which points to a connection with Marseilles or one of her colonies.

The Gauls, moreover, ran of themselves into the Roman trap.

Two of their confederations, the AEduans, of whom mention has already been made, and the Allobrogians, who were settled between the Alps, the Isere, and the Rhone, were at war.