So much the worse for (or Woe to) the conquered! — Livy, 5, 48, 9. — Exclamation of Brennus, chief of the Senonian Gauls (390 BC), on throwing his sword into the balance as a make-weight, when settling the price of peace with Rome. It is copied by Saurin (Œuvres, 2 vols., Paris, 1783), Spartacus 3, 3, where Messala says to Spartacus: La loi de l'univers, c'est malheur aux vaincus! ("Woe to the conquered is the law of the world!"). — Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Allia