Server Costs Fundraiser 2024
Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
$3926 / $18000
Illustration
Vae victis! Woe to the vanquished! Brennus throws his sword on the scale after the sack of Rome in 390 BCE. Print by Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, based on the drawing of Jacobus Buys, 1794
Related Images
Image
Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares
Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares, a bronze sculpture by...
Image
Doctrine of the Two Swords from the Sachsenspiegel
An illumination from the Sachsenspiegel, a German book of customary...
Image
Brennus
Modern depiction of Brennus, on display in the Musée national de...
Image
Brennus
An artist's impression of Brennus, the Gallic war chief of the...
Image
Scale Model of Augusta Treverorum (Trier)
Scale model of Augusta Treverorum in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum...
Image
Oldest Large-Scale Slab in the Levant
This is a stone slab incised with a repeated array of concentric...
Cite This Work
APA Style
Portman, L. G. (2016, June 20). Brennus Throws His Swords on the Scale. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5246/brennus-throws-his-swords-on-the-scale/
Chicago Style
Portman, Ludwig Gottlieb. "Brennus Throws His Swords on the Scale." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified June 20, 2016. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5246/brennus-throws-his-swords-on-the-scale/.
MLA Style
Portman, Ludwig Gottlieb. "Brennus Throws His Swords on the Scale." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 20 Jun 2016. Web. 27 Jul 2024.
