Imperator ipse cum urbem intraret, undique laeto clamore multitudinis salutatus est.  Stabat in curru aureo quem quattuor albi equi vehebant.  Indutus [7]toga picta, altera manu habenas et lauream tenebat, altera eburneum sceptrum.  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:  valere iussit\, _bade farewell to_.]