The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,[5] and of an emperor during the Imperial era.
[6] It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.
[7] The return was the reditus[8] and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.
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