Then, although these did not join them till they reached the Porta Triumphalis, or the Gate of Pomp, attended, each of them, by lictors having their fasces wreathed with laurel, came the Caesars.

First went Vespasian Caesar, the father.

He rode in a splendid golden chariot, to which were harnessed four white horses led by Libyan soldiers.

Behind him stood a slave clad in a dull robe, set there to avert the influence of the evil eye and of the envious gods, who held a crown above the head of the Imperator, and now and again whispered in his ear the ominous words, _Respice post te, hominem memento te_ ("Look back at me and remember thy mortality.") After Vespasian Caesar, the father, came Titus Caesar, the son, but his chariot was of silver, and graved upon its front was a picture of the Holy House of the Jews melting in the flames.

Like his father he was attired in the _toga picta_ and _tunica palmata_, the gold-embroidered over-robe and the tunic laced with silver leaves, while in his right hand he held a laurel bough, and in his left a sceptre.