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Liv. 34.52 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
quinchus celebrates his trium户h.-After thus traversing Thessaly he went on through EDirus to Oricum. his starting place for Italy._From this point the whole of his army was carried across tobrundlsium. 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.…_. On his reaching Rome the senate met outside the Uity to receive his report and they gladly decreed the triumph he had so well earned. 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. On the second day all the gold and silver, coined and uncoined, were borne in the procession. There were 18,ooo pounds of uncoined and unwrought silver and:70 of silver plate,"9 including vessels of every description; most of them embossed and some exquisitely artistic. There were also some made of bronze. In addition to these there were ten silver shields. Of the silver coinaLye 84.ooo were Attic饭eces. known as 一毛曰声.0 a o tetrachma. each nearlv equal in weight to four denarii. The Gold weighed 3714 pounds, including one shield made entirely of gold, __1iL_________________:__r____TlL_1__,~一:_Jand there were 14,514 cuills iru111 rlulip J 1111i11.. In the third dav's procession were carried i 14 Lyolden coronets. the gifts of various cities, and betore the victor's-_ W V 11“卿of。went the sacriticiai victims and many no pie prisoners and nostages, amongstson of th息clatter Philip'sr son "Demetcedaemonian tyrant. Then黑粼1念enes thes himself in his chariot followed by a long train of soldiers, as the whole of his army had been brought binfantryman received a largess of装默the province.each centurion黑 as much, and each cavalryman treble the amount. A striking feature in the procession was furnished by those who had been rescued from slavery, and who with shaven' heads followed their deliverer.2o

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Philip — a candidate entry

The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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