History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . PERTIXAX that he should have a statue of gold in the circus, and that in allprayers aud oaths his name should be invoked. In the Forum anedifice was constructed with a peristyle adorned with ivory andgold, in the centre of which, on a couch covered with tapestryof purple and gold, was placed the image of Pertinax arrayedin triumphal robes. As if he had only been asleep, a handsome 1 Sev. 5. - Statue in Pentelic marble, on which the antique head is set (Museum of the Louvre,Clarac, No
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . PERTIXAX that he should have a statue of gold in the circus, and that in allprayers aud oaths his name should be invoked. In the Forum anedifice was constructed with a peristyle adorned with ivory andgold, in the centre of which, on a couch covered with tapestryof purple and gold, was placed the image of Pertinax arrayedin triumphal robes. As if he had only been asleep, a handsome 1 Sev. 5. - Statue in Pentelic marble, on which the antique head is set (Museum of the Louvre,Clarac, No. 4GG). • VOL. VI. 31 482 THE AFRICAN AND SYRIAN PRINCES, 180 TO 235 a. d. young slave kept away the flies from the waxen face with afan of peacocks feathers. The Emperor and we the senators,with our wives, all arrayed in mourning garments, seated ourselvesaround this building, the women under the porticos, we in theopen space; and the procession began to move. First were carried. PROCESSION OF THE KNIGHTS AT AN FMPEROR°S the figures of Romans venerated since the earliest times; thenfollowed choirs of boys and men singing a funeral hymn; thenwere carried bronze .busts representing all the conquered peoplesin their national costumes; then the busts of those who haddistinguished themselves bv their discoveries ; then the standardsof corporations;2 the infantry, the cavalry, the horses of the 1 Bas-relief from the Antonine Column, representing the procession of the knights at thefuneral of Antoninus (Vatican). - . . avhpwv . . oif ti epyov »; kcu e^fvpr/pn r) Kal eynrijSevpa \apirpbv (netrpaKTO . .Ka\ Ta iv ry jroXet avar^para (Dion, lxxiv. 4). This singular passage will be noticed, and thepresence in this procession of corporations or trades: these two phrases confirm what we havesaid of the importance of the humble trades at. Rome. In the triumphs of Gallienus andAurelian in Rome, in the entry of Constantine into Autun, the collegia, preceded b
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