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After Vespasian Caesar, the father, came Titus Caesar, the son, but his
chariot was of silver, and graved upon its front was a picture of the
Holy House of the Jews melting in the flames. Like his father he was
attired in the _toga picta_ and _tunica palmata_, the gold-embroidered
over-robe and the tunic laced with silver leaves, while in his right
hand he held a laurel bough, and in his left a sceptre. He also was
attended by a slave who whispered in his ear the message of mortality.
Next to the chariot of Titus, alongside of it indeed, and as little
behind as custom would allow, rode Domitian, gloriously arrayed and
mounted on a splendid steed. Then came the tribunes and the knights
on horseback, and after them the legionaries to the number of five
thousand, every man of them having his spear wreathed in laurel.
Now the great procession was across the Tiber, and, following its
appointed path down broad streets and past palaces and temples, drew
slowly towards its object, the shrine of Jupiter Capitolinus, that stood
at the head of the Sacred Way beyond the Forum. Everywhere the side
paths, the windows of houses, the great scaffoldings of timber, and the
steps of temples were crowded with spectators.
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