Meanwhile they celebrate the festival of Mt. Ida, the Megalesian games in honor of Cybele, started by the dropping of the white cloth. The praetor sits, as in a triumphal parade, the booty of the nags. If I am allowed to say, with the permission of the vast and excessive population, today the Circus captivates all of Rome. The roaring beats against the ear, by which I conclude that the Green has won. For if the Green lost, you would see this city mourning and thunderstruck just as when the consuls had been defeated in the dust of Cannae. Let the young men watch, for whom shouting and rash betting and sitting next to a well-dressed girl are suitable.

charioteer for the Green faction receives the palm of victory from the presiding magistrate