"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade.
In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians...
![](http://static.flickr.com/76/185248020_86a98e62ed.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/58/185261436_e7288f7c0f.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/44/185261438_f5b1d4dc9c.jpg)
and strange animals from conquered territories...
![](http://static.flickr.com/78/185261440_dacbcf6e13.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/67/185261439_ab629a7e3e.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/77/185252847_cab850a3cf.jpg)
together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.
![](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/images/20060518-18_d-0482-515h.jpg)
The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot...
![](http://static.flickr.com/9/12354589_2dff899aee.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/55/185252845_3dab33228a.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/70/185252846_2cbcb112ae.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/70/182768511_30904a1f5f.jpg)
The dazed prisoners walking in chains before him.
![](http://static.flickr.com/70/185248023_0ba58fe476.jpg)
![](http://static.flickr.com/72/185248768_77eda77647.jpg)
Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses.
![](http://static.flickr.com/49/185248769_2192a0666d.jpg)
A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting." - George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton
JP
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com