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“Less did the Consul whom the hosts surround when to the Caudine Forks he careless came, and there his head to bow and pass was bound ’neath the triumphant Samnites’ yoke of shame: This, blamed at home, an inborn firmness found to yield him singly, true to constant aim; this other yieldeth self and innocent seed and wife—more glorious and more grievous deed.