How can we piece together its elusive traces in art and literature? As he rode through the Velabrum on the day of his Gallic triumph, the axle of his chariot broke, and he was all but thrown out; and he mounted the Capitol by torchlight, with forty elephants bearing lamps on his right and his left.
Soon enough, however, she won me over.
Staging War The Roman Triumph The Roman triumph was a type of military parade.
Well, this was disappointing.
Having received permission, the triumphant could enter the city without fear of losing the title of emperor.
Plutarch writes that he did not yet have a beard when granted his first triumph- another rarity.