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TACITUS ANNALS: NOTES
of Antiochus, king of Commagene (cf. xiii 7, i), and was set up as
king of a small island off Cilicia by Vespasian.
§ 2. hibernavisae : this was the winter of 61-62 A. D., spent by
the Roman troops on the eastern frontier of Cappadocia ('cxtrema
Cappadocia') instead of at Tigranocerta. We may presume the
compact was made just before winter, and that this passage em-
bo lies the comments passed at Rome the following spring,
§ 3. meritae, 'earned,' 'acquired.' (The word does not neces-
sarily convey the notion of ' merit,' cf. ' vulnera mereri,' Gcrvi. 14, 5;
'ex eo quod meruerat odio,' Caes. B. G. vi 5, 2.)
non : cf. xiii 40, 3.
§ 4. ut rettuli : ch. 3, 2.
aiiventare audiebatur: Intr. II 33.
Caesenniiia : cf. xiv 29, i.
§ 5. legionea : the fourtli and twelfth, given to Caesenius Pactus,
were not thoje which had seen service wilh Corbulo, but had
remained in Syria.
auxilia : the three districts fro:n which these auxiliaries came
were not occupied by any Roman legions.
prior : auxiliaries already under arms before the war.
ex rerum usu, ' in accordance with the requirements of
events.'
§ 6. cui satis, &c., 'whose real deserts would have been satisfied,
if he were placed next to Coibulo.' For the indicative cf. 'poterat,'
ch. 10, I and Intr. II 38.
uaurpatas, &c., ' only in name had he made a practice q'
storming cities ' ; for ' nomine tenus ' cf. ' ore tenus,' ch. 45, 4.
pro umbra, iSic, ' instead of a phantom king ' (such as Tigranes
and others before him). Paetus promises the reduction of Armenia
to a Roman province.
Ch. 7, § I. sub idem tempus : in the spring of 62 A.D.
memoravi : ch. 5,5.
§ 2. Funisulanua Vettonianus was one of the foremost men in
the state under Domitian, and an inscription detailing his appoint-
ments and honours has been found in Pannonia, where he held
command in 85 A.D.
Calavius Sabinus, otherwise unknown. He and Funisulanus
appear to have come out with Paetus, as other legati were
appointed to the legions in Armenia by Corbulo, ch. 3, i.
Armeniam intrat : starting from Cappadocia, he would pro-
bably cross the river near Melitene, and then proceed southwards
towards Tigranocerta.
§ 3. nulla palam causa: so in xiv 32, i.
consularia insignia: a richly caparisoned horre was assigned
to a dictator or consul, to whom the regal insignia descended ; this
would not, however, belong to Paetus in his capacity of ' legatus ' ;
but he would have a horse carrying the ' fasces ' on the march.
§ 4. hibernaculis : those under construction for the coming
winter, viz. that of 62-63 A.D.
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