rum. Post eum servus in curru stans auream coronam super
caput eius tenebat. Ante currum miserrimi captivi, reges principesque
superatarum gentium, catenis vincti, progrediebantur; et viginti
quattuor lictores[8] laureatas fascis ferentes et signiferi currum
Caesaris comitabantur. Concludit agmen multitudo captivorum, qui, in
servitutem redacti,[9] demisso vultu, vinctis[10] bracchiis, sequuntur;
quibuscum veniunt longissimo ordine milites, etiam hi praedam vel
insignia militaria ferentes.

[Illustration: LICTORES CUM FASCIBUS]

Caesar cum Capitolium ascendisset, in templo Iovi Capitolino sacra
fecit. Simul[11] captivorum qui nobilissimi erant, abducti in
carcerem,[12] interfecti sunt. Sacris factis Caesar de Capitolio
descendit et in foro miitibus suis honores militaris dedit eisque
pecuniam ex belli praeda distribuit.

His omnibus rebus confectis, Publius Caesarem valere[13] iussit et quam
celerrime ad villam contendit ut patrem matremque salutaret.

[14]De rebus gestis P. Corneli Lentuli hactenus.

[Footnote 1: A victorious general with his army was not allowed to
enter the city until the day of his triumph. A triumph was the
greatest of all military honors.]

[Footnote 2: /Quo die\, _on the day that_, abl. of time.]

[Footnote 3: /ut ... essent\, Sec. 501.43.]

[Footnote 4: /Cum ... intraret\, Sec. 501.46.]

[Footnote 5: /qui ... immolarentur\, Sec. 501.40.]

[Footnote 6: The Sacred Way was a noted street running along one
side of the Forum to the base of the Capitoline Hill, on whose
summit stood the magnificent temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. This
route was always followed by triumphal processions.]

[Footnote 7: The /toga picta\ worn by a general in his triumph was a
splendid robe of Tyrian purple covered with golden stars. See Plate
IV, p. 213.]

[Footnote 8: The lictors were a guard of honor that attended the
higher magistrates and made a way for them through the streets. On
their shoulders they carried the _fasces_, a bundle of rods with an
ax in the middle, symbolizing the power of the law.]

[Footnote 9: /demisso vultu\, _with downcast countenance_.]

[Footnote 10: /vinctis\, from /vincio\.]

[Footnote 11: /Simul\, etc., _At the same time those of the captives
who were the noblest._]

[Footnote 12: The prison was a gloomy dungeon on the lower slopes of
the Capitoline Hill.]

[Footnote 13: