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Consultatum inde inter legatos quique alii senatorum aderant quisnam Syriae praeficeretur. (consultatum … quisnam Syriae praeficeretur: indirect question with subjunctive after consultatum: ‘it was discussed who in the world (quisnam) should be put at the head of Syria.’) et ceteris modice nisis, (ceteris modice nisis: abl. abs.: ‘the others having insisted only mildly’; nisis is from nitor, ‘to strive’) inter Vibium Marsum et Cn. Sentium (Vibium Marsum et Cn. Sentium: Vibius Marsus will appear again in ch. 79, in Book 4, ch. 76 and in Book 6, ch. 48; Cn. Sentius receives no further mention in the Annals.) diu quaesitum: dein Marsus seniori et acrius tendenti Sentio concessit. isque infamem veneficiis ea in provincia et Plancinae percaram nomine Martinam in urbem misit, postulantibus Vitellio ac Veranio (Vitellio ac Veranio: Vitellius was mentioned previously in Book 1, ch. 70, Veranius in ch. 56 of the present Book.) ceterisque qui crimina et accusationem tamquam adversus receptos iam reos instruebant. (qui crimina et accusationem tamquam adversus receptos iam reos instruebant: ‘who were preparing the criminal charges as though against defendants already admitted [to trial]’; tamquam …receptos: conditional conjunctions of comparison like tamquam, quasi, velut may be found in post-classical writers in combination with participles, in a quasi-adverbial capacity. See L. 2121.)