Rather send thou unto him deputies, and lay on him a tribute to be paid to thee every year.

Thus the land will be preserved, and thou wilt be lord forever over him who owes thee tribute.
If he refuse, thou shalt then do what pleaseth thee." Clovis found the counsel good, ordered his army to return home, sent deputies to Gondebaud, and called upon him to undertake the payment every year of a fixed tribute.

Gondebaud paid for the time, and promised to pay punctually for the future.

And peace appeared made between the two barbarians.
Pleased with his campaign against the Burgundians, Clovis kept on good terms with Gondebaud, who was to be henceforth a simple tributary, and transferred to the Visigoths of Aquitania, and their king, Alaric II., his views of conquest.

He had there the same pretexts for attack and the same means of success.