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So Titus took the journey he intended into Egypt, and passed over
the desert very suddenly, and came to Alexandria, and took up a resolution
to go to Rome by sea. And as he was accompanied by two legions, he sent
each of them again to the places whence they had before come; the fifth
he sent to Mysia, and the fifteenth to Pannonia: as for the leaders of
the captives, Simon and John, with the other seven hundred men, whom he
had selected out of the rest as being eminently tall and handsome of body,
he gave order that they should be soon carried to Italy, as resolving to
produce them in his triumph. So when he had had a prosperous voyage to
his mind, the city of Rome behaved itself in his reception, and their meeting
him at a distance, as it did in the case of his father. But what made the
most splendid appearance in Titus's opinion was, when his father met him,
and received him; but still the multitude of the citizens conceived the
greatest joy when they saw them all three together, 1
as they did at this time; nor were many days overpast when they determined
to have but one triumph, that should be common to both of them, on account
of the glorious exploits they had performed, although the senate had decreed
each of them a separate triumph by himself. So when notice had been given
beforehand of the day appointed for this pompous solemnity to be made,
on account of their victories, not one of the immense multitude was left
in the city, but every body went out so far as to gain only a station where
they might stand, and left only such a passage as was necessary for those
that were to be seen to go along it.
1 Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian.
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