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Dionysius Of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 2.34


nan The town being taken in this manner, he ordered the prisoners to deliver up their arms, and taking such of their children for hostages as he thought fit, he marched against the Antemnates. And having conquered their army also, in the same manner as the other, by falling upon them unexpectedly while they were still dispersed in foraging, and having accorded the same treatment to the prisoners, he led his army home, carrying with him the spoils of those who had been slain in battle and the choicest part of the booty as an offering to the gods; and he offered many sacrifices besides. <, Romulus himself came last in the procession, clad in a purple robe and wearing a crown of laurel upon his head, and, that he might maintain the royal dignity, he rode in a chariot drawn by four horses. The rest of the army, both foot and horse, followed, ranged in their several divisions, praising the gods in songs of their country and extolling their general in improvised verses. They were met by the citizens with their wives and children, who, ranging themselves on each side of the road, congratulated them upon their victory and expressed their welcome in every other way. When the army entered the city, they found mixing bowls filled to the brim with wine and tables loaded down with all sorts of viands, which were placed before the most distinguished houses in order that all who pleased might take their fill. <, Such was the victorious procession, marked by the carrying of trophies and concluding with a sacrifice, which the Romans call a triumph, as it was first instituted by Romulus. But in our day the triumph had become a very costly and ostentatious pageant, being attended with a theatrical pomp that is designed rather as a display of wealth than as approbation of valour, and it has departed in every respect from its ancient simplicity. <, After the procession and the sacrifice Romulus built a small temple on the summit of the Capitoline hill to Jupiter whom the Romans call Feretrius; indeed, the ancient traces of it still remain, of which the longest sides are less than fifteen feet. In this temple he consecrated the spoils of the king of the Caeninenses, whom he had slain with his own hand. As for Jupiter Feretrius, to whom Romulus dedicated these arms, one will not err from the truth whether one wishes to call him Tropaiouchos, or Skylophoros, as some will have it, or, since he excels all things and comprehends universal nature and motion, Hyperpheretês. <


nan1.  The town being taken in this manner, he ordered the prisoners to deliver up their arms, and taking such of their children for hostages as he thought fit, he marched against the Antemnates. And having conquered their army also, in the same manner as the other, by falling upon them unexpectedly while they were still dispersed in foraging, and having accorded the same treatment to the prisoners, he led his army home, carrying with him the spoils of those who had been slain in battle and the choicest part of the booty as an offering to the gods; and he offered many sacrifices besides.,2.  Romulus himself came last in the procession, clad in a purple robe and wearing a crown of laurel upon his head, and, that he might maintain the royal dignity, he rode in a chariot drawn by four horses. The rest of the army, both foot and horse, followed, ranged in their several divisions, praising the gods in songs of their country and extolling their general in improvised verses. They were met by the citizens with their wives and children, who, ranging themselves on each side of the road, congratulated them upon their victory and expressed their welcome in every other way. When the army entered the city, they found mixing bowls filled to the brim with wine and tables loaded down with all sorts of viands, which were placed before the most distinguished houses in order that all who pleased might take their fill.,3.  Such was the victorious procession, marked by the carrying of trophies and concluding with a sacrifice, which the Romans call a triumph, as it was first instituted by Romulus. But in our day the triumph had become a very costly and ostentatious pageant, being attended with a theatrical pomp that is designed rather as a display of wealth than as approbation of valour, and it has departed in every respect from its ancient simplicity.,4.  After the procession and the sacrifice Romulus built a small temple on the summit of the Capitoline hill to Jupiter whom the Romans call Feretrius; indeed, the ancient traces of it still remain, of which the longest sides are less than fifteen feet. In this temple he consecrated the spoils of the king of the Caeninenses, whom he had slain with his own hand. As for Jupiter Feretrius, to whom Romulus dedicated these arms, one will not err from the truth whether one wishes to call him Tropaiouchos, or Skylophoros, as some will have it, or, since he excels all things and comprehends universal nature and motion, Hyperpheretês.


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1. Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 21 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

2. Propertius, Elegies, 3.4 (1st cent. BCE

3. Plutarch, Brutus, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Plutarch, Fabius, 22.5-22.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

22.5. While everything else was carried off as plunder, it is said that the accountant asked Fabius what his orders were concerning the gods, for so he called their pictures and statues; and that Fabius answered: Let us leave their angered gods for the Tarentines. 22.5. While everything else was carried off as plunder, it is said that the accountant asked Fabius what his orders were concerning the gods, for so he called their pictures and statues; and that Fabius answered:Let us leave their angered gods for the Tarentines. 22.6. However, he removed the colossal statue of Heracles from Tarentum, and set it up on the Capitol, and near it an equestrian statue of himself, in bronze. He thus appeared far more eccentric in these matters than Marcellus, nay rather, the mild and humane conduct of Marcellus was thus made to seem altogether admirable by contrast, as has been written in his Life. Chapter xxi. Marcellus had enriched Rome with works of Greek art taken from Syracuse in 212 B.C. Livy’s opinion is rather different from Plutarch’s: sed maiore animo generis eius praeda abstinuit Fabius quam Marcellus, xxvii. 16. Fabius killed the people but spared their gods; Marcellus spared the people but took their gods.
5. Plutarch, Romulus, 16.8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

16.8. Cossus indeed, and Marcellus, already used a four-horse chariot for their entrance into the city, carrying the trophies themselves, but Dionysius Antiq. Rom. ii. 34. is incorrect in saying that Romulus used a chariot. For it is matter of history that Tarquin, the son of Demaratus, was first of the kings to lift triumphs up to such pomp and ceremony, although others say that Publicola was first to celebrate a triumph riding on a chariot. Cf. Publicola, ix. 5. And the statues of Romulus bearing the trophies are, as may be seen in Rome, all on foot.
6. Plutarch, Sulla, 38.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
authority, poetic Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
biography, biographical Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
campus martius Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
civic participation Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
coins Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
empire, as territorial expanse Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
fictionality Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
flamininus, t. quinctius Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
imagination Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
inscription Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
monuments Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
poets, rivalry with the princeps Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
ritual Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
romanitas Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
rome, city Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
romulus/quirinus Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
romulus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
spoils Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
statue, fabius maximus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
statue, heracles Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
statue, iunius brutus, m. Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
statue, romulus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
sulla, l. cornelius Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
tarentum Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 66
temple' Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189
tiberius Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (2018) 189