The elements of agriculture are the elements of the universe, water, earth, air and sunlight

- Varro, "On Agriculture"

"Oh, this is the ship that during the siege of the city of Sizcus, the triumphant general Lukulas used a large cart to pull the ship from the seashore to Lake Dasilitis, and carried a hundred soldiers of the legion into the besieged city, and it was these soldiers who saved the huge city in the end." Calabis was very skillful in his commentary, and then he saw Kelly trot to the racing track and found him, "Okay, the triumph is about to begin, the master said, appoint you as a guide, and the salary is not the same as the others, five hundred drachmas!" ”

When Calabis heard this, he patted Paruma on the head and told him to either continue playing at the racecourse or to go home and help his adoptive mother, Porty, with some household chores, and then followed Kelly.

They arrived at the starting point of the triumphal ceremony, at the Colonel Matthius on the outskirts of the city, where six hundred soldiers were neatly lined up in uniforms and armor, and Luculas, dressed in a white robe with purple trim, sat on a splendid carriage with ochre-red dye on his face, flanked by a procession of citizens, officials, alien spectators, and high-ranking captives. Calabis stood at the head of the procession, holding Lucuras's scepter, and was responsible for dispatching the entire triumphal formation, and they set out from the main school field, starting with twelve horsemen dressed in full gear, whose bodies and faces were wrapped in steel forged armor, holding spears embellished with tassels, and straddled the saddles inlaid with gold, which excited the children on both sides of the avenue and the arcade. The cavalry was followed by forty slaves carrying large portraits depicting Lucuras in various battles in the East, with Calabis following in the procession.

They were followed by ten captured chariots of Pontus, with their axles and scythes blazing loudly, to the astonishment of the citizens who gathered around for joy—they wondered what it was like to be cut by the scythes of such chariots traveling at high speed on the battlefield.

Sixty captive Pontus and Armenian high-ranking ministers or nobles, all of whom had previously declared their surrender to Rome so that they did not have to be summarily executed as they passed through the ridge of Mount Veria, all with kind and humble smiles, addressed the Roman citizens who had come to see them—once the triumphal ceremony was over, they would settle in the city of Rome and live a life of basic food and clothing, and their descendants would automatically become Roman citizens.

The people of Rome were amazed by the procession that followed—a column of carts carrying all sorts of huge bronze bows, which Luculas had captured in naval battles, and said to be as many as one hundred and ten in all.

Thirty-six slaves and fifty-eight mules and horses, carrying on their backs pottery urns full of gold and silver coins, one hundred and seventy thousand, and a large number of shields and armor, indicate that Lucuras's foreign wars were not as his political opponents had criticized, but brought great wealth to the Senate and the people of Rome.

zuihou, a vehicle carrying a huge stone monument with the inscription "Lucius. Licinius. Lucuras, who had financed Pompey's 350 Tallant's gold and silver salaries during the war against pirates, has not yet been repaid, and hereby erects a monument to commemorate "This was discussed between Luculas and Caesar in advance, and there is a way to satirize the great general Pompey, who is so jealous and powerful."

Zuihou, Lucuras sitting in a golden carriage, entered the people's field of vision majestically, and at this time the triumphal procession had passed through the valley where the Palatine and Carien mountains meet, and the crowd of people who came to cheer became more and more dense, and Lucuras waved to everyone, but there was a commotion in the ranks of the six hundred soldiers - the soldiers sang a song to the citizens: "The tuna is a generous commander, and we have followed him in the war for seven years, He generously gave us nine chickpeas in return! ”

Hearing the teasing song of the soldiers, the townspeople hahadaxiao got up, and Luculas hurriedly called Calabis: "Tell the soldiers that the reward will be increased to nine hundred drachmas, and tell them to change the current lyrics."

Then, the procession passed through Capitol Hill, at the temple of the god of war on the mountain, the soldiers presented all kinds of captured weapons and armor like statues, and then the procession walked around the holy realm under Palatine Hill, Zuihou arrived at the Grand Roman Forum, Lucuras got out of the carriage, under the fluttering mint petals, walked along the "holy road" of the square, and the end of Zuihou was the temple of Jupiter, which represented the highest authority of the Roman divine realm

Until the evening, the citizens of Rome lingered in the gladiatorial tournaments and banquets that Lucuras paid for them, but Calabis was tired from working all day, and he sat on the front steps of the newly built small temple of Apollo in the main square, which was built at the expense of the triumphal front Lucuras to express the blessing of his god and the patron god of Rome (one of them) for his victory, in fact, there was already an old small temple dedicated to Apollo in the main square. So Luculas asked the craftsmen to use the small temple as a base to expand it, making the whole building look like a "matryoshka doll".

While the citizens of Rome, still immersed in the triumphal joy, were still piling up in the great square, rejoicing around the chariot or bronze bow of the Pontus chariot or the bronze ship just now, Calabis saw a pale-faced middle-aged man holding a torch, surrounded by a group of young people, standing in the middle of the square, shouting to the citizens around him: "Citizens, I, am a councillor and your friend, Catiline!" How spectacular the Triumph is today, but don't you know? Luculas's war has brought us so much benefit to Rome that what is on display today is only the tip of the iceberg. Think about the fertile fields of Little Asia, the beautiful slave girls, the sturdy male slaves, and the countless treasures of gold and silver. And the subsidy you receive today is no more than 200 cesdes per person. Then he pointed his hand at Calabis, who was sitting on the steps, and shouted, "And the freeman will be able to get five hundred drachmas, which is two thousand Seses!" ”

Calabis thought to himself, this can also be shot? This Catirin seemed to have been secretly observing him for a long time, and sure enough, at his instigation, many citizens began to clamor angrily, and Catirin continued: "So, what good has this war brought us? Are we not the citizens who are fully supporting the victory of this war, and now we are deceived by the idle nobles who have deceived us of the blood and loyalty we have paid for the Republic, and who have taken the lion's share of the profits of the war, but have only given us a small scrap of cold burn? Let me say that the enemies of Rome are not in the East, nor in North Africa, nor in Gaul, but in the Senate, the fat guys who sit in circle chairs! ”