Kitap 3
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ovation. ovation —When celebrating a “triumph,” the victorious general entered the City gorgeously attired, and riding in a chariot drawn by four horses. Before him walked the prisoners taken in the war, and the spoils of the captured cities, and in later times pictures of the conquered territories were carried before the general's chariot. He was followed by his troops, who sung songs, often extempore effusions, in honour of their commander. In the “ovation,” on the other hand, the general entered the City on foot, in later times on horseback, clothed in a simple toga praetexta, and often unattended by his soldiers. In the “triumph” the general sacrificed a bull to Jupiter on the Capitol; in the “ovation” a sheep was substituted. Hence its name (ovis=sheep). The following year the new consuls, P. Volumnius and Ser. Sulpicius, were confronted by the proposed law of Terentilius, which was now brought forward by the whole college of
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tribunes. During the year, the sky seemed to be on fire; there was a great earthquake; an ox was believed to have spoken —the year before this rumour found no credence. Amongst other portents it rained flesh, and an enormous number of birds are said to have seized it while they were flying about; what fell to the ground lay about for several days without giving out any bad
