Everything about The Ovation totally explained
The
ovation (
Latin:
ovatio) was a less-honored form of the
Roman triumph. Ovations were granted, when war wasn't declared between enemies on the level of states, when an enemy was considered basely inferior (
slaves,
pirates), and when the general conflict was resolved with little to no bloodshed or danger to the army itself. Also, generals were in theory only meant to be given ovations when victory resulted from a civil war, as for a triumph the victory had to be over a foreign enemy.
The general celebrating the ovation didn't enter the city on a
biga (a chariot) pulled by two
white horses, as generals celebrating triumphs did, but instead walked in the
toga praetexta of a
magistrate (a toga with a
purple stripe, unlike generals in triumphs, who wore the
toga picta that was totally purple and adorned with golden stars).
The honored general also wore a
wreath of
myrtle (sacred to
Venus) upon his brow, rather than the triumphal wreath of
laurel. The
Roman Senate didn't precede the general, nor did soldiers usually participate in the procession.
Perhaps the most famous ovation in history is that which
Marcus Licinius Crassus celebrated after his victory of the
Third Servile War.
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