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The name Curule is derived from Currus, a chariot, as the old writers say, and as is proved by the expression Curulis Triumphus, a Curule Triumph, which is opposed to an Ovatio, in which the triumphing general went on foot in the procession. The Plebeian Ædiles were first elected B.C. 494, at the same time as the Plebeian tribunes.
Though therefore it be the mind that makes the collection, it is the name which is as it were the knot that ties them fast together. What a vast variety of different ideas does the word TRIUMPHUS hold together, and deliver to us as one species!
I shall close this Subject with giving you one Caution: When you have gained a Victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the Company and your Adversary see 'tis in your Power, but that you are too generous to make use of it. No. 198. Wednesday, October 17, 1711. Addison. 'Cervae luporum praeda rapacium Sectamur ultro, quos opimus Fallere et effugere est triumphus. Hor.
His works were: Commentatiuncula de Mahumetanorum secta; Triumphus crucis, sive de fidei Christianae veritate in four books , de Simplicitate vitae Christianae in five books, and Compendium Revelationis , and many volumes of his discourses, some of which are the rarest treasures of incunabula.
In an ovatio the general walked in the procession, instead of riding in a chariot drawn by four horses, as in the Triumphus Curulis; and he wore a crown of myrtle, instead of a crown of bay which was worn on the occasion of the greater triumph. The duties of the censors are here briefly alluded to by Plutarch.
Delapsae coelo flammae licet acrius urant, Has gelida exstingui non nisi morte putas Tu meliora paras victrix Medicina; tuusque, Pestis qua superat cuncta, triumphus eris. Vive liber, victis febrilibus ignibus; unus Te simul et mundum qui manet, ignis erit. J. LOCK, A. M. Ex. agreeable to observe the contentment and kindness of this quiet, benevolent man.
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