摘要：Leaving and returning to Rome was a moment of heightened expectation.Cicero was downcast to discover, on his return from Sicily, thatno-one had noticed he had gone. Crassus left Rome with the execrationsof a tribune, Ateius Capito, ringing in his ears, and never returned.Flaminius found that the people ignored his return with glorious spoils becausehe had ignored them; Pompey had to linger outside the city; Sullaclaimed that he did not sleep the night he entered Rome. Luke takes the accountsof return to the city in the late Republic and early empire as histheme, and argues that the manipulation of ceremonial was part of the religiouscontext of political power, and that the gradual development of this ranalongside the heightened language around deification.
