"They named it Ovation from the Latin Ovis, [a sheep]."
— Plutarch (46-120) Parallel Lives, "Marcellus," section 22
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| Festa di Pales, o L'Estate by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1783). After an Ovation the subject would sacrifice a sheep, as opposed to a triumph where the animal was an ox. |
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