Eique vehiculo insidenti, quod portabat reliquias, ut principibus solet, annonae militaris offerebantur indicia (ut ipsi nominant probae) et animalia publica monstrabantur, et ex usu crebrescebant occursus, quae et alia horum similia eidem Ioviano imperium quidem sed et cassum et umbratile (ut ministro rerum funebrium) portendebant.
And as he sat in the carriage that bore the remains, samples of the soldiers rations (probae, as they themselves call them) were presented to him, as they commonly are to emperors, and the public courier-horses were shown to him, and the people thronged about him in the customary manner. These and similar things foretold imperial power for the said Jovianus, but of an empty and shadowy kind, since he was merely the director of a funeral procession.
final_alignments\Ammianus_Marcellinus_Book21.json