Note 441 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.

Tac. Germ. vii. viii. After the defeat of the Cimbri by Marius, their women applied to the Consul, to have their chastity respected, and themselves assigned as serfs to the vestal virgins. On receiving a refusal they put their children and then themselves to death. The dogs that had accompanied them, long defended their corpses. See Florus, iii. 3, and Orosius, v. 16.