Conflict of Orders

The Senate is called into session.

Word has reached Rome of a victory over the Boii by the Consul Valerius Marius. Bononia and Mutina have been recaptured. Thousands of Barbarians have been taken captive and a train of booty trails the army on their return to Rome.

The Topic of this senate session is the awarding of a Triumph, and if so, the size and extravagance of it. What say the Senate?

A proxy for the Propraetor Claudius Nero rises to speak

The Consul has achieved many great victories for Rome this year. He has reclaimed Rome's lost lands and colonies in Bononia and Mutina, and eradicated the barbarians that had joined the Carthaginians only two decades ago during the Second Punic War. He has thus avenged our people when these same barbarians killed almost 25,000 Roman troops outside Ariminum and decapitated the Consul-elect Lucius Postumius Albinus. These lands will be opened to Roman colonisation once more due to his successes, and as such the Consul Valerius Marius deserves our upmost respect. Therefore I recommend we provide him a Medium Triumph to recognise the successes he has given to the Republic, and the opportunities we now have to expand Rome's cities and civilisation northward.

Allectus stands once given the opportunity to speak by the Princeps Senatus

Honored Conscript Fathers,

I echo the words from Propraetor Claudius Nero.

The Consul deserves a medium triumph for his actions.

It is not in our distant past that Gallic hordes came down and ravaged our fair City.

It has taken several generations but we are now in the position to threaten the Gallic homelands and take back what Brennus took from our forefathers and our Republic one hundred times over.

We shall make them regret the day those unwashed painted barbarians travelled south into Italia!

Roma Invictus!

Allectus would sit back down

Conscript fathers,

I also believe a medium triumph would appropriate given Consul Valerius Marius's decisive victories against the Gauls this year.

The Censor rises.

Conscript fathers,

I believe a Triumph as proposed is adequate to this event.

The proxy for Lucretius Tricipitinus rose

The Consul is indeed worthy of a triumph of this stature

The proxy Senator for Furius Pavo raises his hand in a clenched fist.

Hear hear! While there are more battles to be won against the barbarous North, our lands have been reclaimed and this deserves recognition!

After nodding along with the whoops of approval resonating throughout the Senate, Marcus Silvius Pastor rises to speak:

Brethren,

For his services to Rome on the battlefield, namely the expulsion of such traitorous and uncivilized Barbarians from rightful Roman lands and the redemption of Roman dignity and honor two decades removed from the tragedy at Silva Litana, Consul Valerius Marius is undoubtedly worthy of a Medium Triumph.

Then it is settled, the Medium Triumph shall begin.