id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7248 Roman triumph - Wikipedia .html text/html 7991 665 65 The Roman triumph (triumphus) was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a foreign war. Most Roman festivals were calendar fixtures, while the tradition and law which reserved a triumph to extraordinary victory ensured that its celebration, procession, attendant feasting, and public games promoted the general's status and achievement. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7248.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7248.txt