Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 124
l back,ye pressing and eager throngs ; for see the long lineof lictors, their fasces bound with laurel, precedes thehero of all this gorgeous display—the Imperator him-self—standing erect, in a chariot drawn by four horses,clothed in a gold-embroidered robe and flowered tunic,a laurel bough in his… … Roman Triumph.—(From an ancientPainting found in Pompeii.) 122 A AOMAN TRIUMPH. blazing with precious stones. Tertullian tells us—buthis statement is not confirmed by any other writer—that it was the slaves duty to check the exultation ofthe Imperator in his hour of unparalleled glory by…
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