In 211 BCE, the Senate turned down 's request for a triumph after his victory over the Carthaginians and their Sicilian-Greek allies, apparently because his army was still in Sicily and unable to join him.
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The senate would have a formal vote; the people would decide to grant the vir triumphalis, triumphant man, imperium within the city for the time of the procession.
Among these peoples according to the inscriptions no less than a thousand strongholds had been captured, and almost nine hundred cities, eight hundred piratical ships; he had also founded while thirty-nine cities.