e's
being proud of the triumphs over the Illyrians and Ligurians, and
begrudging itself the sight of the king of Macedon brought alive, and
all the glories of Philip and Alexander carried captive to the arms of
Rome. Is it not a strange thing that on the unfounded rumour of this
victory being circulated, you sacrificed to the gods, praying that you
soon might behold this spectacle, yet now that the army has returned
after a real victory, you refuse the gods the honour and yourself the
pleasure of it, as if you feared to see the extent of your successes, or
wished to spare the feelings of your captive enemy; though it would show
a nobler feeling than pity for him, not to deprive your general of his
triumph for a mean grudge. Your baseness has reached such a pitch that a
man without a scar, with his body delicately nurtured in the shade,
dares to speak about generalship and triumphs before us who have learned
by so many wounds to judge of a general's vice and virtues." As he
spoke, he opened his clothes, and showed his breast with an incredible
number of scars upon it; then turning to Galba, who had made some
remarks not very decent "You laugh," said he, "at these other marks: but
I glory in them before my countrymen, for I got them by riding, night
and day, in their service. But come, bring them to vote; I will go
amongst them and follow them all to the poll, that I may know those who
are cowardly and ungrateful, and like rather to be ruled by a demagogue
than by a true general."

XXXII. These words are said to have caused such remorse and repentance
among the soldiers, that all the tribes voted Aemilius his triumph. It
is said to have been celebrated thus. The people, dressed in white
robes, looked on from platforms erected in the horse course, which they
call the Circus, and round the Forum, and in all other places which gave
them a view of the procession. Every temple was open, and full of
flowers and incense, and many officials with staves drove off people who
formed disorderly mobs, and kept the way clear. The procession was
divided into three days. The first scarcely sufficed for the display of
the captured statues, sculptures, and paintings, which were carried on
two hundred and fifty carriages. On the following day the finest and
most costly of the Macedonian arms and armour were borne along in many
waggons, glittering with newly burnished brass and iron, and arranged in
a carefully studied disorder, helmets upon