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Dilapsis speculatoribus cetera cohors non aspernata contionantem, (cetera cohors non aspernata [est] contionantem: ‘the remainder of the cohort did not refuse to listen to the speaker’.) ut turbidis rebus evenit, forte magis et nullo adhuc consilio rapit signa [quam], quod postea creditum est, insidiis et simulatione. (ut turbidis rebus evenit, forte magis et nullo adhuc consilio rapit signa [quam], quod postea creditum est, insidiis et simulatione: ‘as happens in times of confusion, they instinctively grabbed their standards, without a prearranged plan, rather than in an attempt to conceal their treachery, as was later thought’; insidiis et simulatione are ablatives of cause, ‘because of treachery and pretense [of loyalty].) missus et Celsus Marius (Celsus Marius: cf. ch. 14) ad electos Illyrici exercitus, Vipsania in porticu (Vipsania in portico: built by Vipsanius Agrippa, emperor Augustus’ right hand, somewhere in the Campus Martius, a large open space in the NW section of Rome, near the river Tiber; note that porticus is fem.) tendentis; praeceptum Amullio Sereno et Domitio Sabino primipilaribus, (primipilaribus: a primipilaris was the centurion highest in rank within a legion: he commanded the first century of the first cohort of a legion.) ut Germanicos milites e Libertatis atrio (e Libertatis atrio: its exact location is not known, possibly in the area known later as the Trajan’s forum between the Capitoline and the Quirinal hill.) accerserent. legioni classicae diffidebatur, infestae ob caedem commilitonum, quos primo statim introitu trucidaverat Galba. pergunt etiam in castra praetorianorum tribuni Cetrius Severus, Subrius Dexter, Pompeius Longinus, si incipiens adhuc et necdum adulta seditio melioribus consiliis flecteretur. (pergunt etiam in castra … si …seditio melioribus consiliis flecteretur: pergunt exemplifies a sudden change to historical present to convey a heightened sense of immediacy; the historical present has, in this example, the function of a secondary tense, like the historical perfect, and takes the secondary sequence of tenses. (for sequence of tenses see A.G. 482, 483, and 485, e.); si …flecteretur: imperfect subjunctive for conditional clause in indirect discourse introduced by a verb of thinking or saying implicit in the main verb or in the general drift of the context, thus: ‘they went to the camp on the chance, [so they thought], that the revolt might still be averted by better counsel’; since pergunt is a secondary or historical tense, it is followed by imperf. subjunctive, but there are cases where the historical present is considered a principal or primary tense: cf. A.G. 485, e.) tribunorum Subrium et Cetrium adorti milites minis, Longinum manibus coercent exarmantque, quia non ordine militiae, sed e Galbae amicis, fidus principi suo et desciscentibus suspectior erat. legio classica nihil cunctata praetorianis adiungitur; Illyrici exercitus electi Celsum infestis pilis proturbant. Germanica vexilla diu nutavere, invalidis adhuc corporibus et placatis animis, (placatis animis: ‘being kindly disposed in spirit’; placatis is adj., not perf. participle.) quod eos a Nerone Alexandriam praemissos (a Nerone Alexandriam praemissos: cf. ch. 6) atque inde rursus longa navigatione aegros impensiore cura Galba refovebat.