[397] Against the Jews.

[398] From the Pontus. Cp. ii. [83].

[399] See note [216]; and cp. chap. [81].

[400] For his victories in Britain under the auspices of Claudius, who nominally shared with him the command of the expedition, a.d. 43.

[401] Titus, who was now thirty, had served as Tribunus militum under his father in Germany and in Britain.

[402] More exactly of Galilee and Phoenicia.

[403] This is of course from the Roman point of view. Caesarea was the seat of the procurator. That Jerusalem was the national capital Tacitus recognizes in Book [V].

[404] See note [216].

[405] He had started for Rome with Titus (chap. [1]), and continued his journey when Titus turned back.

[406] See note [205].