24. Can you give a general description of a triumph?

FOOTNOTES:

[1]

This is virtually the same account as that given by Niebuhr, but he excludes the accensi and cavalry from his computation, which brings down the amount to 3600 soldiers.

[2]

From ovis, a sheep, the animal on this occasion offered in sacrifice; in the greater triumph the victim was a milk-white bull hung over with garlands, and having his horns tipped with gold.

CHAPTER VIII.

ROMAN LAW—FINANCE.