Triumph
The Roman triumph was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander who had won great military successes, or originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a foreign war. In Republican tradition, only the Senate could grant a triumph. The origins and development of this honour were obscure: Roman historians placed the first triumph in the mythical past. On the day of his triumph, the general wore a crown of laurel and the all-purple, gold-embroidered regalia that identified him as near-divine or near-kingly. He rode in a four-horse chariot with solid mail on each horse. He Rode through the streets of Rome in unarmed procession with his army, captives and the spoils of his war. At Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hill he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god. Thereafter he had the right to be described triumphal man of Triumph.
Ovation
Ovations was a sort of triumph. Ovations were granted, when war was not declared between enemies on the level of nations or states; when an enemy was considered basely inferior or, when the general conflict was resolved with little to no danger to the army itselfThe general celebrating the ovation did not enter the city on a chariot pulled by two horses. The honoured general also wore a wreath of myrtle sacred to the goddess Venus.