Last Triumph

[L C Cinna]

Salvete omnes!

I have a brief question:

Which is the last triumph held in Rome? is it the one of Constantius described by Ammianus or was there one more at a later date?

[Theodosius the Great]

After Stilicho defeated the Visigoths in 403 Honorius celebrated a triumph in Rome.



~Theo

[L C Cinna]

Do you know if there is any descritpion of this event similar to the one in Ammianus?

Ok I found another one of Theodosius in Claudian.

[Theodosius the Great]

In Claudian you'll find the details of Honorius' Triumph if you go to this url :
[pre]http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_VI_Consulatu_Honorii*.html[/pre]And scroll down to page 113 and it continues for several pages.

It starts off like this :

'Twas thy good pleasure, too, to visit Clitumnus' wave,17 beloved of them that triumph, for thence do victors get them white-coated animals for sacrifice at Rome. Thou markest well also the stream's strange property, flowing gently on when one approaches with silent step, but swirling and eddying should one hasten with louder utterance...

One huge crowd filled all the slope between the Palatine hill and the Mulvian bridgef and as far up p115as it was possible to go on the house roofs; the ground seethed with men, the lofty buildings were aglow with women. Those who are young rejoice in an emperor of their own age, the old cease to belaud the past and count their destiny happy that they have lived to see such a day, blessing the kindly times when a prince so easy of access, so singular in courtesy, forbade the senators of Rome to march before his chariot, even though Eucherius, in whose veins ran regal blood on father's and on mother's side, and his own sister did honour to his triumph like simple soldiers. Such has been the teaching of that stern but loving parent who showed no more favour to his children than to himself, and refused a son honours he granted to nobles. Bent age and upstanding youth alike are loud in his praises and, comparing the new with the ancient rule, recognize in Honorius a true citizen, in his predecessors tyrants.

The women of Rome never tire of gazing at those blooming cheeks, those crownèd locks, those limbs clothed in the consul's jasper-studded robes, those mighty shoulders, and that neck, beauteous as Bacchus' own, with its necklace of Red Sea emeralds. Many an innocent maid, while simple modesty blushes in her cheek, would bend her gaze o'er all and inquire of her aged nurse the meaning of the dragons on the colours.


And on and on...

~Theo

[L C Cinna]

Thank you