He also was attended by a slave who whispered in his ear the message of mortality.
Next to the chariot of Titus, alongside of it indeed, and as little behind as custom would allow, rode Domitian, gloriously arrayed and mounted on a splendid steed.

Then came the tribunes and the knights on horseback, and after them the legionaries to the number of five thousand, every man of them having his spear wreathed in laurel.
Now the great procession was across the Tiber, and, following its appointed path down broad streets and past palaces and temples, drew slowly towards its object, the shrine of Jupiter Capitolinus, that stood at the head of the Sacred Way beyond the Forum.

Everywhere the side paths, the windows of houses, the great scaffoldings of timber, and the steps of temples were crowded with spectators.

Never before did Miriam understand how many people could inhabit a single city.

They passed them by thousands and by tens of thousands, and still, far as the eye could reach, stretched the white sea of faces.