[344] i.e. Publius Celer. As this Demetrius was present with Thrasea at the end, holding high philosophical discourse with him (_Ann._ xvi. 34), he seems to have been a Cynic in the modern sense as well. [345] Another Stoic malcontent, brother of the Arulenus Rusticus mentioned in iii. 80. [346] According to Dio they were two devoted and inseparable brothers. They became governors, one of Upper and the other of Lower Germany, and, being wealthy, were forced by Nero to commit suicide. [347] Cp. ii. 10. [348] Cp. iii. 9. [349] Cp. i. 48, note 79. [350] Twenty-five. [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. 98. [365] See i. 70. [366] See chap. 11. [367] i.e. he hoped that Piso would accept the story with alacrity and thus commit himself. [368] Cp. i. 7. [369] Under Domitian he became one of the most notorious and dreaded of informers. His name doubtless recurred in the lost books of the Histories. But the only other extant mention of him by Tacitus is in the life of Agricola (chap. 45). [370] On the coast between Carthage and Thapsus. [371] Tripoli and Lebda. [372] Further inland; probably the modern Fezzan. [373] Vespasian was still at Alexandria. [374] Cp. ii. 82, note 410. [375] Cp. ii. 4 and Book V. [376] It had been Vespasian's original plan to starve Rome out by holding the granaries of Egypt and Africa. See iii. 48. [377] Cp. iii. 71.