Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

Henceforth we are prepared to suffer what we may have to suffer as men who have surrendered themselves into your hands.”

At these words they all burst into tears and stretching out their hands towards the consul they prostrated themselves on the floor of the vestibule.