Send under the yoke
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To send under the yoke was a practice in ancient Italy whereby defeated enemies were made to pass beneath a yoke constructed of spears either to humiliate them or to remove blood guilt.
Medallion depicting the Romans being sent under the yoke by the Samnites (Pseudo-Melioli, c. 1500)
Illustration by Tancredi Scarpelli of the Romans being sent under the yoke.
Horatii and Curiatii
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In the ancient Roman legend of the regal period, the Horatii and Curiatii were two sets of triplet brothers who lived during the reign of Tullus Hostilius. The accounts of their epic clash appear in t
Send under the yoke
…to pass under a yoke formed from spears. The practice is said to have originated as a form of expiation. According to Livy, after the battle of the Horatii and Curiatii, Publius Horatius killed his own sister Camilla because she mourned the death of one of the Curiatii, to whom she had been betrothed, rather than her…
Oath of the Horatii (1786), by Jacques-Louis David and his pupil Girodet
Publius Horatius after killing his sister