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History of Rome, Vol III

BOOK XXXIV
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When he had completed these regulations in Thessaly, he went on, through Epirus, to Oricum, whence he intended to take his passage.
From Oricum all the troops were transported to Brundusium.

From this place to the city, they passed the whole length of Italy, in a manner, like a triumph; the captured effects which they brought with them forming a train as large as that of the troops themselves.

When they arrived at Rome, the senate assembled outside the city, to receive from Quinctius a recital of his services; and, with high satisfaction, a well-merited triumph was decreed him.

His triumph lasted three days.
On the first day were carried in procession, armour, weapons, brazen and marble statues of which he had taken greater numbers from Philip than from the states of Greece.

On the second, gold and silver wrought, unwrought, and coined.


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