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[401] Titus, who was now thirty, had served as _Tribunus
militum_ under his father in Germany and in Britain.

[402] More exactly of Galilee and Phoenicia.

[403] This is of course from the Roman point of view. Caesarea
was the seat of the procurator. That Jerusalem was the
national capital Tacitus recognizes in Book V.

[404] See note 216.

[405] He had started for Rome with Titus (chap. 1), and
continued his journey when Titus turned back.

[406] See note 205.

[407] Cappadocia was under a procurator of equestrian rank
until Vespasian some years later was forced to send out troops
and a military governor.

[408] Beyrut.

[409] _Procuratio_ covers the governorship of an imperial
province such as Judaea, the post of financial agent in an
imperial province where there was a military governor
(_legatus Caesaris_), and the position of collector of
imperial taxes in a senatorial province. _Praefectura_, may
mean either a command in the auxiliary infantry or the
governorship of certain imperial provinces. Here the former
seems the more probable sense.

[410] They would treat with Vologaeses, king of Parthia, and
Tiridates of Armenia, and keep an eye on them.
This they did
with such success that Vologaeses offered Vespasian 40,000
cavalry.

[411] Alexandria and Pelusium.

[412] i. e. besides the Sixth Ferrata he had detachments from
the other two legions in Syria, and from the three in Judaea.
Cp. notes 163 and 164.

[413] Borrowing this platitude from Cicero, who got it from
the Greek.

[414] i. e. the legions in Moesia, Pannonia, and Dalmatia (cp.
note 3).

[415] Cp. note 286.

[416] XIII Gemina and VII Galbiana (see below).

[417] See i.