Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part I/XVII
XVII.THE BATTLE OF THE WHIPS.
86.Formerly, their slaves having made a conspiracy against the Scythians, fought a battle (against them). They fought for a long time. At length one of the Scythians spoke as follows: ‘Scythians, what are we doing, pray? While fighting with our slaves we are being slain ourselves: also, when they have been killed, we shall then have fewer (slaves). Therefore, leaving our spears and arrows, let us take our whips, and make an attack on our slaves, for they think themselves equal to and like us; but when we have taken our whips, they will remember their slavery.’ The Scythians obeyed these words; but the slaves, seeing the whips, betook themselves to flight.