All this however was described with exaggeration to the Senate,
in the speeches of those members who proposed a public thanksgiving, and
that on the days of the thanksgiving the prince should wear the triumphal
robe and enter Rome in ovation, lastly, that he should have statues on
the same scale as those of Mars the Avenger, and in the same temple. To
their habitual flattery was added a real joy at his having appointed Domitius
Corbulo to secure Armenia, thus opening, as it seemed, |