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After thus traversing Thessaly he went on through Epirus to Oricum, his starting place for Italy. [2] From this point the whole of his army was carried across to Brundisium, and from Brundisium they marched through the whole length of Italy to the City in what was almost a triumphal procession, of which the captured spoils formed as large a part as the troops themselves. [3] On his reaching Rome the senate met outside the City to receive his report and they gladly decreed the triumph he had so well earned. [4] Its celebration lasted three days. On the first day he had carried through the City the arms and armour and the bronze and marble statues; those taken from Philip were more numerous than those which he had secured in the various cities. [5] On the second day all the gold and silver, coined and uncoined, were borne in the procession. There were 18,000 pounds of uncoined and unwrought silver and 270 of silver plate, including vessels of every description, most of them embossed and some exquisitely artistic. [6] There were also some made of bronze. In addition to these there were ten silver shields. Of the silver coinage 84,000 were Attic pieces, known as tetrachma, each nearly equal in weight to four denarii. [7] The gold weighed 3714 pounds, including one shield made entirely of gold, and there were 14,514 coins from Philip's mint. [8] In the third day's procession were carried 114 golden coronets, the gifts of various cities, and before the victor's chariot went the sacrificial victims and many noble prisoners and hostages, amongst the latter Philip's son Demetrius and Armenes the son of the Lacedaemonian tyrant. [9] Then came Quinctius himself in his chariot followed by a long train of soldiers, as the whole of his army had been brought back from the province. [10] Each infantryman received a largess of 250 ases, each centurion twice as much, and each cavalryman treble the amount. [11] A striking feature in the procession was furnished by those who had been rescued from slavery, and who with shaven heads followed [12??] their deliverer.
Livy. History of Rome. English Translation by. Rev. Canon Roberts. New York, New York. E. P. Dutton and Co. 1912. 1. Livy. History of Rome. English Translation. Rev. Canon Roberts. New York, New York. E. P. Dutton and Co. 1912. 2.
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