manes dyed, their forelocks puffed, drew a high and wonderfully
jewelled car; and there, in the attributes and attitude of Jupiter
Capitolinus, Caesar sat, blinking his tired eyes. His face and
arms were painted vermilion; above the Tyrian purple of his toga,
above the gold work and palms of his tunic, there oscillated a
little ball in which there were charms against Envy. On his head a
wreath concealed his increasing baldness; along his left arm the
sceptre lay; behind him a boy admonished him noisily to remember
he was man, while to the rear for miles and miles there rang the
laugh of trumpets, the click of castanets, the shouts of dancers,
the roar of the multitude, the tramp of legions, and the cry,
caught up and repeated, "Io! Triomphe!"

Presently, in the temple of the god of gods, side by side with the
statue of Jupiter, Caesar found his own statue with "Caesar, demi-
god," at its base. The captive chiefs disappeared in the
Tullianum, and a herald called, "They have lived!" Through the
squares jesters circulated, polyglot and obscene; across the
Tiber, in an artificial lake, the flotilla of Egypt fought against
that of Tyr; in the amphitheatre there was a combat of soldiers,
infantry against cavalry, one that indemnified those that had not
seen the massacres in Thessaly and in Spain. There were public
feasts, gifts to everyone. Tables were set in the Forum, in the
circuses and theatres. Falernian circulated in amphorae, Chios in
barrels. When the populace was gorged there were the red feathers
to enable it to gorge again. Of the Rome of Romulus there was
nothing left save the gaunt she-wolf, her wide lips curled at the
descendants of her nursling.

Later, when in slippered feet Caesar wandered through those lovely