c. 4.
Twice I have triumphed in the ovation,[23] and three times in the curule triumph,[24] and I have been twenty-one times saluted as imperator.[25]
After that, when the senate decreed me many triumphs,[26] I declined them. Likewise I often deposited the laurels in the Capitol[27] in fulfilment of vows which I had also made in battle. On account of enterprises brought to a successful issue on land and sea by me, or by my lieutenants under my auspices, the senate fifty-five times decreed that there should be a thanksgiving to the immortal gods.[28] The number of days, moreover, on which thanksgiving was rendered in accordance with the decree of the senate was eight hundred and ninety.[29] In my triumphs there have been led before my chariot nine kings, or children of kings.[30] When I wrote these words I had been thirteen times consul, and was in the thirty-seventh year of the tribunitial power.[31]