The ''profectio'' ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...
in his guise as a general in
Republican Rome, and of an
emperor
The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...
during the
Imperial era. It was a conventional scene for
relief sculpture and imperial coinage. The return was the ''reditus'' and the ceremonial reentry the ''
adventus''.
[Manders, ''Coining Images of Power,'' p. 70.]
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Processions in ancient Rome
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Military of ancient Rome
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