[274] i. [66].

[275] i. [59] and [64].

[276] See chap. [14].

[277] It is Tacitus who has mixed the metaphors.

[278] See i. [66].

[279] i.e. he pretended that not all but only a few were to blame (cp. i. [84]).

[280] Valens had by now Legion V, I Italica, detachments from I, XV, XVI, and Taurus' Horse: Caecina had Legion XXI and detachments from IV and VII.

[281] Cp. i. [53].

[282] Cp. i. [66].

[283] He had made his name in a Moorish war (a.d. 42), when he had penetrated as far as Mount Atlas, and increased his reputation by suppressing the rebellion of Boadicea when he was governor of Britain (a.d. 59).