Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

the augurs? A triumphing general drives through the City in a gilded chariot, apparelled in the splendid vestments of Jupiter Optimus Maximus After this he goes up to the Capitol; is he not to be seen there with capis and lituus [*](The capis was a dish used in sacrificing, here denoting the priest. The lituus (see Vol. I. p. 22) similarly denoted the augur.)? Is it to be regarded as an indignity, if he with veiled head slay a victim, or from his place on the citadel take