[608] ‘Tanquam innocentes,’ Tac. Hist. i. 6.
[609] More properly “rowers,” men employed to row in ships of war, who regarded it as promotion to become legionary soldiers.
[610] Vinius had engaged to marry the daughter of Tigellinus, who was a widow with a large dower.
[611] ‘Hordeonius Flaccus,’ Tac. Hist. i. 12, 53, etc.
[612] Tigellinus, we have learned from the last chapter but one, was living at Rome. Moreover he was never in command of any legions; and evidently some legions in the provinces are meant. Clough conjectures that we should read Vitellius instead of Tigellinus; and this I think very reasonable.
[613] This seems to be a mistake, as Asiaticus was a freedman of Vitellius. See Tac. (Hist. ii. 57)
[614] Of sesterces.
[615] A.D. 69.
[616] The First Legion, in Lower Germany.
[617] At Cologne.