[504] a.d. 40.

[505] A freedman, Procurator of Judaea, a.d. 52-60 (cp. Acts xxiv).

[506] Claudius' mother, Antonia, was the daughter of Antony's first marriage.

[507] a.d. 64-66.

[508] a.d. 67 and 68.

[509] a.d. 69.

[510] Chap. [1].

[511] Jerusalem stands on a rock which rises into three main hills, Zion (south), Acra (north), and Moriah (east). It is not clear to which two of these Tacitus alludes; probably Zion and Moriah.

[512] Of this no traces remain, and the tradition may have been based on the metaphorical prophecy that a fount of living water would issue from the Sanctuary.

[513] i.e. the Galilean towns captured by Vespasian in a.d. 67 and 68.