transvectio

“How dared he!” gasped Pompey to Philippus, who had come to compliment him upon his performance at the transvectio-and to see how the Great Man would swallow Crassus's ploy.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

So novel was the transvectio that most of Rome tried to jam into the Forum Romanum to watch it, though many had to content themselves with seeing the parade pass by between the Circus Flaminius and the Forum.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Thus had his tame censors Clodianus and Gellius revived the transvectio, as the parade was called, though it had not been held after the time of Gaius Gracchus.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The discourse ended somewhat abruptly, as the noise of a great crowd in motion was heard below the walls; whereupon, the audience, following the humour of the younger element in it, poured into the colonnade, from the steps of which the famous procession, or transvectio, of the military knights was to be seen passing over the Forum, from their trysting-place at the temple of

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866