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Sub iugum missio
Ritual humiliation of a beaten army.
Reading notes
- De Bello Gallico §1.7.3 under the yoke
To be 'sent under the yoke' was to make a beaten army file beneath a frame of spears—a ritual humiliation of the defeated.
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Ritual humiliation of a beaten army.
To be 'sent under the yoke' was to make a beaten army file beneath a frame of spears—a ritual humiliation of the defeated.