[377] This meant about £200 to every man who had done sixteen years' service.
[378] i.e. the Eleventh to Dalmatia, the Seventh to Pannonia.
[379] Literally, enjoy dinner-parties beginning at an early hour, i.e. before two o'clock. This was considered 'fast'.
[380] The word here used by Tacitus, pervigilia, properly denotes all-night religious festivals. But—like Irish wakes—such festivals tended to deteriorate, and the word acquired a sinister sense.
[382] Because they had seized one of Verginius' slaves, as described in the last chapter.
[383] The revolt of Civilis described in Book [IV]. His force included Roman legionaries as well as Batavians, Gauls, and Germans.
[384] The word 'rex' had still an 'unroman' sound.
[385] Cremona was sacked and burnt in the following October (cp. iii. [32] f.).
[386] Literally, the tribunes of the legions and the prefects of the auxiliaries.