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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 108

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p at the temple of Bellona, outsidethe walls, waiting for orders. The patricians, who were jealous of the CHAP. VTII.] ROMAN TRIUMPH 88 generals, thought to deprive them of the customary honours, by a lowtrick; but the tribes dealing more fairly with the warriors, or, to use afamiliar expression,… … In the foreground of the Tableau may be observed a Patrieiau looking very black at theTriumph of the General. In modern times, the nearest approach we have to a triumph is theentrance into a country town of a company of equestrians, or a travellingmenagerie. The arrangements were in many respects…

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