[340] The meaning seems to be that Caecina indulged the men in order to win popularity, Valens in order to obtain licence for his own dishonesty. [341] He had depleted them by sending detachments forward with Valens and Caecina (see i. 61). [342] One of the vilest and most hated of imperial menials (see chap. 95, and iv. 11). The gold ring was a token of equestrian rank (cp. i. 13). [343] Caesariensis (Fez) and Tingitana (Morocco). They had been imperial provinces since A.D. 40. [344] See i. 8. [345] Gemina. [346] The military titles here used have a technical meaning which translation cannot convey. A senior centurion (cp. note 57) could rise to the command of an auxiliary cohort, like the Festus and Scipio here mentioned (_praefecti cohortium_). The next step would be to _tribunus legionis_, and from that again to _praefectus alae_. This was Pollio's position, the highest open to any but soldiers of senatorial rank. [347] Saone. [348] He was so poor, says Suetonius, that he had no money to take him out to Germany, when appointed to that province. He had to let his house and hire a garret for his wife and family, and to pawn one of his mother's pearl ear-rings. [349] Aged 6. [350] Cp. i. 62. [351] He was executed by Mucianus (iv. 80). [352] He postponed the hearing of their case, and thus, as accused persons, they had by custom to wear mourning. [353] Cp. i. 77. [354] Cp. i. 90. As Trachalus' gentile name was Galerius, she was presumably a relative. [355] Between the Loire and the Allier. [356] Mariccus being a provincial 'of no family', Tacitus hardly likes to mention him. [357] The word _trahebat_ may here mean 'began to plunder', but this seems less likely. [358] This punishment seems to have been reserved, appropriately enough, for those who stirred up popular sedition. [359] From Vitellius' point of view the Othonians were rebels, since he had been declared emperor before Otho: or else as rebels against Galba. [360] Cp. i. 22. [361] i.e. as gladiators. Juvenal says this is what the spendthrifts come to: and also that they would do it for money, without any Nero to compel them. On the whole the bankrupt rich preferred 'knock-about comedy' to the very real dangers of a combat. [362] i. 88. [363] Cp. i. 80. [364] Terni. [365] Cp. i. 62. [366] See chap. 58. [367] i.e. the property, not of Vitellius personally, but of the imperial household. [368] He would entertain some natural doubt as to who _was_ emperor. The incriminating suggestion is that he meant to insert his own name.