Date: 1828
Now, as there were but thirty thousand Romans, each soldier must have killed three Auvergnats, which makes ninety thousand Auvergnats.  There still remain ten thousand to be divided among the best butchers or the machines of the Fabian army.  We must take it for granted that the Auvergnats submitted quietly to their fate, that their regiments of dogs made no more resistance than their mas ters, that a single stroke of the sword, the javelin, the arrow, or the sling, duly aimed at a mortal part, was sufficient to dispatch its man ; that the Auverg nats neither did nor could flee ; that the Romans lost not a single soldier; and, finally, that a few hours sufficed for the material slaughter with the sword of one hundred thousand men.