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Proxima legionis primae hiberna erant (proxima legionis primae hiberna erant: at Bona or Bonn, about 25 km or 16 miles south of Cologne) et promptissimus et legatis Fabius Valens. is die postero (die postero: Jan. 2, 69 AD) coloniam Agrippinensem cum equitibus legionis auxiliariorumque ingressus imperatorem Vitellium consalutavit. secutae ingenti certamine eiusdem provinciae legiones; et superior exercitus, speciosis senatus populique Romani nominibus relictis, tertium nonas Ianuarias (tertium nonas Ianuarias: a rule for finding the corresponding date in English given the nones and ides is the following: add 1 to the date of nones and ides and subtract the given number; since in January the nones fall on the 5th day, then (5+1) – 3 = the third of January.) Vitellio accessit: scires illum priore biduo non penes rem publicam fuisse. (scires illum priore biduo non penes rem publicam fuisse: ‘you could tell that in the last two days that army had not been on the side of the republic’: scires is potential subjunctive with the second person singular as its indefinite subject; cf. B. 280, 3 and G. 258; illum denotes disparagement, ‘that army there’.) ardorem exercituum Agrippinenses, Treviri, Lingones aequabant, auxilia equos, arma pecuniam offerentes, ut quisque corpore opibus ingenio validus. (ut quisque corpore opibus ingenio validus: ‘to the degree that each {was] strong in bodily vigor, resources, and enterprise’) nec principes modo coloniarum aut castrorum, quibus praesentia ex affluenti (ex affluenti: ‘in abundance’) et parta victoria (parta Victoria: ‘from secured victory’) magnae spes, sed manipuli (manipuli: manipulus is one of the basic units of infantry in the Roman army, equivalent to a company today: it was comprised of two centuries and had anywhere from 120 to 200 men depending on strength status; thirty manipuli made up a legion.) quoque et gregarius miles viatica sua et balteos phalerasque, insignia armorum argento decora, loco pecuniae tradebant, instinctu et impetu et avaritia.