When introduced before the senate, they are represented as having spoken thus: "Conscript fathers, overcome by you and your commander by a victory at which neither god nor man can feel displeasure, we surrender ourselves to you, considering that we shall live more happily under your rule than under our own law, than which nothing can be more glorious for a conqueror.

In the result of this war, two salutary examples have been exhibited to mankind.

You preferred faith in war to present victory: we, challenged by your good faith, have voluntarily given up to you the victory.

We are under your sovereignty.

Send men to receive our arms, our hostages, our city with its gates thrown open.