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winners with two-horse or four-horse chariots ; 

 and this is the origin of our chariot-groups in 

 honour of those who have celebrated a triumphal 

 procession. But this belongs to a late date, and 

 among those monuments it was not till the time 

 of his late lamented Majesty Augustus that 

 chariots with six horses occurred,^ and likewise 

 elephants. 



XI. The custom of erecting memorial chariots Roman 

 with two horses in the case of those who held the •"'^^""- 

 office of praetor and had ridden round the Circus in a 

 chariot is not an old one ; that of statues on pillars 

 is of earlier date, for instance the statue of honour 

 of Gaius Maenius who had vanquished the Old 338 b.c. 

 Latins to whom the Roman nation gave by treaty 

 a third part of the booty won from them. It was in 

 the same consulship that the nation, after defeating 

 the people of Antium, had fixed on the platform the 

 beaked prows of ships taken in the victory over the 

 people of Antium, in the 416th year of the city of 

 Rome ; and similarly the statue to Gaius DuilHas, 

 who was the first to obtain a naval triumph over the 260 b.o. 

 Carthaginians — this statue still stands in the forum ^ — 

 and Hkewise that in honour of the praefect of markets 

 Lucius Minucius outside the Triplets Gate, defrayed 439 b.o. 

 by a tax of one-twelfth of an as per head. I rather 

 think this was the first time that an honour of this 

 nature came from the whole people ; previously it 

 had been bestowed by the senate : it would be a 

 very distinguished honour had it not originated on 

 such unimportant occasions. In fact also the statue 

 of Attus Navius ^ stood in front of the senate-house — 

 when the senate-house was set on fire at the funeral 

 of Publius Clodius the base of the statue was burnt 52 b.o. 



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