[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].
[378] Probably from Etruria, where certain families were credited with the requisite knowledge and skill. Claudius had established a College of Soothsayers in Rome. They ranked lower than the Augurs.
[379] At Ostia.