A meeting of the senate was now held, and the consular tribunes were empowered to make terms. A conference took place between Quintus Sulpicius, the consular tribune, and Brennus, the Gaulish chieftain and an agreement was arrived at by which 1000 lbs. of gold was fixed as the ransom of a people destined ere long to rule the world. This humiliation was great enough as it was, but it was aggravated by the despicable meanness of the Gauls, who produced unjust weights, and when the tribune protested, the insolent Gaul threw his sword into the scale, with an exclamation intolerable to Roman ears, „Woe to the vanquished!“
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