[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. 79. [418] The Balkan range. [419] He was concerned in the forgery of a will: see _Ann._ xiv. 40, where he is called 'a man of ready daring'. [420] These were imperial provinces, each governed by a _legatus Caesaris_ and a _procurator_, the former a military, the latter a financial officer. [421] Reading _quaestus cupidine_ (Grotius). The reading of the Medicean manuscript is _quietis cupidine_. But Fuscus, as the sequel shows, had little taste for a quiet life. It is more likely that his motives were mercenary, since both law and custom still imposed some restrictions upon a senator's participation in 'business'. In the _Annals_ (xvi. 17) Tacitus says that Annaeus Mela abstained from seeking public office, because he 'hoped to find a shorter road to wealth' by entering, as Fuscus did, the imperial civil service. The statement that Fuscus loved danger better than money does not imply any rooted antipathy to the latter. [422] i.e. in Pannonia. [423] Cp. chaps. 66 and 67. VITELLIUS IN ROME