c. 4.
Twice I have triumphed in the ovation,23 and three times in the curule triumph,24 and I have been twenty-one times saluted as imperator.25
After that, when the senate decreed me many triumphs,26 I declined them. Likewise I often deposited the laurels in the Capitol27 in fulfilment of vows which I had also made in battle. On account of enterprises brought to a successful issue on land and sea by me, or by my lieutenants under my auspices, the senate fifty-five times decreed that there should be a thanksgiving to the immortal gods.28 The number of days, moreover, on which thanksgiving was rendered in accordance with the decree of the senate was eight hundred and ninety.29 In my triumphs there have been led before my chariot nine kings, or children of kings.30 When I wrote these words I had been thirteen times consul, and was in the thirty-seventh year of the tribunitial power.31