The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 9–10. and of an emperor during the Imperial era.Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–282 (Brill, 2012), p. 71. It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70–76. The return was the reditusGeoffrey S. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2005), p. 35. and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 70.
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