单词 | to pass under the yoke |
释义 | > as lemmasto pass under the yoke b. Roman History. A yoke lifted up in the air, or an arrangement of two spears fixed upright in the ground with another on top of them representing this, under which a conquered army was made to pass as a symbol of subjugation. Frequently in to pass under the yoke. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > subjugation > yoke under which defeated enemy passed yokec1540 gallows1565 fork1619 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. xxviii. 284 He..wald suffir þame to departe vnder ȝoik [L. sub iugum abituros], To mak it knawin þai war subdewit. This ȝoik was made of thre speris, of quhilkis twa war dentit in þe erde, and þe thrid laid thortoure þare hedis. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. xxviii. 107 His..pleasure was, they should passe al under the yoke or gallowes. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. ix. 93 Jugurtha grants the Romans Life and Liberty but upon Condition that they should pass under the Yoke. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 82 He gave them their lives, but obliged them, in token of servitude, to pass under the yoke, which was two spears set upright, and another across, in the form of a door, beneath which the vanquished were to march. 1825 Oriental Herald Nov. 347 Rather than see his honours tarnished, and his brethren in arms made, in a manner, to pass under the yoke..by the fatuity of the Amherst administration. 1855 Harper's Mag. July 181/1 Only a few woe-stricken families were left to pass under the yoke of the conqueror. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome xxx. 209 His army was routed, and passed under the yoke. 1909 C. Beare in Macaulay's Lays of Anc. Rome 16 It was precisely at the time at which the Roman people rose to unrivaled political ascendency that they stooped to pass under the intellectual yoke. 2012 L. de Libero in H. Afflerbach & H. Strachan How Fighting Ends iii. 37 The beaten were compelled to pass under the yoke, exposed in public, disgraced amidst jeering enemy soldiers. < as lemmas |
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