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Haec primo statim anno comprimendo egregiam famam paci circumdedit, (famam paci circumdedit: ‘he placed an aura of respectability around peace’; circumdare requires dat.) quae vel incuria vel intolerantia priorum haud minus quam bellum timebatur. Sed ubi aestas (aestas: of 79 A.D.) advenit, contracto exercitu multus in agmine, (multus in agmine [erat]: ‘was assiduous with the troops’) laudare modestiam, disiectos coercere; (laudare…coercere: infinitives of narration, as are capere, praetemptare, and pati that follow.) loca castris ipse capere, aestuaria ac silvas ipse praetemptare; et nihil interim apud hostis quietum pati, (nihil… quietum pati: lit. ‘he allowed nothing quiet’) quo minus subitis excursibus popularetur; (quo minus subitis excursibus popularetur: ‘so that he should not be ravaged by sudden raids’; quo minus or quominus = ut eo minus, lit. ‘that thereby the less he shoud …’; the conj. introduces a final clause after verbs of preventing, refusing, etc.; popularetur is pass., not dep., as the active populo exists side by side with the deponent form.) atque ubi satis terruerat, (ubi satis terruerat: ubi takes the pluperfect indicative to denote the repeated occurrence of an act when the main tense is historical, including historical infinitive, as here; cf. B. 287 (2)) parcendo rursus invitamenta pacis ostentare. Quibus rebus multae civitates, quae in illum diem ex aequo egerant, (quae …ex aequo egerant: ‘which had managed their affairs from a position of equals’) datis obsidibus iram posuere et praesidiis castellisque circumdatae, et tanta ratione curaque, ut nulla ante Britanniae nova pars [pariter] inlacessita transierit. (tanta ratione curaque, ut nulla ante Britanniae nova pars [pariter] inlacessita transierit: ‘with such skill and care, that no newly secured part of Britain ever came over to us before unmolested to such a degree’; [pariter] has been suggested as an addition to the text to make it consistent with the intended meaning; transierit: use of perfect subjunctive in a consecutive clause occurs when past action happened once or not at all; cf. G. 513.)