At the break of day they were now encompassed by the dictator's works, and were scarcely able to maintain the fight against one army.

Then their lines were attacked by Quintius's army, who immediately after completing their work returned to their arms.

Here a new fight pressed on them: the former one had suffered no relaxation.
Then the twofold peril pressing hard on them, turning from fighting to entreaties, they implored the dictator on the one hand, the consul on the other, not to make the victory consist in their general slaughter, that they would suffer them to depart without arms.

When they were bid by the consul to go to the dictator, he, incensed against them, added ignominy (to defeat).

He orders Gracchus Cloelius, their general, and other leaders to be brought to him in chains, and that they should evacuate the town of Corbio; "that he wanted not the blood of the AEquans: that they were allowed to depart; but that the confession may be at length extorted, that their nation was defeated and subdued, that they should pass under the yoke." The yoke is formed with three spears, two fixed in the ground, and one tied across between the upper ends of them.