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[351] Piso was a brother of Regulus' victim. He was therefore
glad to see him incapable of reprisal.

[352] i. e. there was no property left to tempt Nero.

[353] i. e. the money and other rewards won by prosecuting
Crassus and Orfitus.

[354] Nero.

[355] He had recited some libellous verses on Nero and been
condemned for treason.

[356] Cp. ii. 67.

[357] i. e.
those who had surrendered at Narnia and Bovillae,
as distinct from those who had been discharged after Galba's
death.

[358] Chap. 2.

[359] i. e. those who were either over fifty or had served in
the Guards sixteen or in a legion twenty years.

[360] See iii. 74.

[361] See chap. 38.

[362] Africa was peculiar in that the pro-consul, who governed
it for the senate, commanded an army. All the other provinces
demanding military protection were under imperial control.
Caligula, without withdrawing the province from the senate, in
some degree regularized the anomaly by transferring this
command to a 'legate' of his own, technically inferior to the
civil governor.

[363] Whereas the pro-consul's appointment was for one year
only, the emperor's legate retained his post at the emperor's
pleasure, and was usually given several years.

[364] Cp. ii.