At that time the inhabitants of Rome resumed the garb of peace, which they had taken off without any decree, under compulsion from the people; they gave themselves up to merrymaking, conveyed Caesar in his triumphal robe into the city and honored him with a laurel crown, so that he enjoyed this decoration as often as the celebrators of triumphs were accustomed to use it.

Had Cato not reason to make it a reproach against Nobilior, that he took Enniuswho, we may add, glorified in his verses the Roman potentates without respect of persons, and overloaded Cato himself with praisealong with him to Ambracia as the celebrator of his future achievements?

But the Provençal celebrators of love and chivalry had no such dignity in their task.

The celebrator of great sacrifices, versed in the Vedas and their branches, the destroyer of enemies in battle, and like unto the sun and the moon in splendour, is he.

In times of old, king Yayati was the celebrator of sacrifices.

The same attempts, conducted in the same manner, but terminated by different success, produce different judgments: they who attain their wishes, never want celebrators of their wisdom and their virtue; and they that miscarry, are quickly discovered to have been defective not only in mental but in moral qualities.

They cause the celebrator of the triumph to ascend a car, smear his face with earth of Sinope or cinnabar (representing blood) to screen his blushes, fasten armlets on his arms, and put a laurel wreath and a branch of laurel in his right hand.