Go, cover the head of the liberator of this city; hang him on the gallows; scourge him, either within the pomoerium, so it be only amid those javelins and spoils of the enemy; or without the pomoerium, only amid the graves of the Curiatii.

For whither can you bring this youth, where his own glories must not redeem him from such ignominy of punishment ?" The people could not withstand the tears of the father, or the resolution of the son, so undaunted in every danger; and acquitted him more through admiration of his bravery, than for the justice of his cause.

But that so notorious a murder might be atoned for by some expiation, the father was commanded to make satisfaction for the son at the public charge.

He, having offered certain expiatory sacrifices, which were ever after continued in the Horatian family, and laid a beam across the street, made his son pass under it as under a yoke, with his head covered.

This remains even to this day, being constantly repaired at the expense of the public; they call it Sororium Tigillum.