> In some accounts of the Roman triumph, a companion or public slave would stand behind or near the triumphant general during the procession and remind him from

> In some accounts of the Roman triumph, a companion or public slave would stand behind or near the triumphant general during the procession and remind him from time to time of his own mortality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori