[
101]
When Cæsar returned to Rome he had four triumphs together: one for
his Gallic wars, in which he had added many great nations to the Roman sway
and subdued others that had revolted; one for the Pontic war against
Pharnaces; one for the war in Africa against the African allies of L.
Scipio, in which the historian Juba (the son of King Juba), then an infant,
was led a captive. Between the Gallic and the Pontic triumphs he introduced
a kind of
Egyptian triumph, in which he led some captives
taken in the naval engagement on the Nile.
1 Although he took care not to inscribe any Roman names
in his triumph (as it would have been unseemly in his eyes and base and
inauspicious in those of the Roman people to triumph over fellow-citizens),
yet all these misfortunes were represented in the processions and the men
also by various images and pictures, all except Pompey, the only one whom he
did not venture to exhibit, since the latter was still greatly regretted by
all. The people, although restrained by fear, groaned over their domestic
ills, especially when they saw the picture of Lucius Scipio, the
general-in-chief, wounded in the breast by his own hand, casting himself
into the sea, and Petreius committing self-destruction at the banquet, and
Cato torn open by himself like a wild beast. They applauded the death of
Achillas and Pothinus, and laughed at the flight of Pharnaces.
