Dio 48.16.1

Roman History 48.16.1

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

48.16.1

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

16This, however, occurred later. At the time in question the citizens of Rome resumed the garb of peace, which they had laid aside without any decree, under compulsion from the people; they gave themselves up to merry-making, conveyed Caesar in his triumphal dress into the city and honoured him with a laurel crown, giving him also the right to wear it on every occasion on which it was the custom of those celebrating triumphs to use it.