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Eadem largitione civitatum quoque ac provinciarum animos adgressus Hispalensibus et Emeritensibus (Hispalensibus et Emeritensibus: respectively Seville in SW Spain, above Cadiz, and Merida, well north of Seville, east of Badajoz, at the same latitude as Lisbon.) familiarum adiectiones, Lingonibus universis (Lingonibus universis: cf. ch. 53.) civitatem Romanam, provinciae Baeticae Maurorum civitates (Maurorum civitates: parts of Mauretania on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, were annexed to Baetica, the southernmost of the three provinces into which Spain was divided.) dono dedit; nova iura Cappadociae, nova Africae, (Cappadociae … Africae: the province of Cappadocia was in eastern Asia Minor or modern Turkey, limited by the Black Sea to the north, Galatia to the west, Cilicia to the south, and Armenia to the east; Africa was the province comprising, in modern terms, the eastern part of Algeria, the whole of Tunisia, and the coastal areas of Lybia as far as Cyrenaica to the east.) ostentata magis quam mansura. inter quae necessitate praesentium rerum et instantibus curis excusata ne tum quidem (ne tum quidem: ‘not even at that time’) immemor amorum statuas Poppaeae (Poppaeae: cf. ch. 13.) per senatus consultum reposuit; creditus est etiam de celebranda Neronis memoria agitavisse spe vulgum adliciendi. et fuere qui imagines Neronis proponerent: (fuere qui … proponerent: sunt qui and variants thereof introduce a rel. clause of characteristic for which see erant quos … accenderet in ch. 25.) atque etiam Othoni quibusdam diebus populus et miles, tamquam nobilitatem ac decus adstruerent, (tamquam … adstruerent: ‘as if to enhance his …’; tamquam introduces a conditional clause of comparison and is always followed by subjunctive, which conforms to the regular sequence of tenses, thus imperfect for incomplete action when the main verb, here acclamavit, is historical.) Neroni Othoni (Neroni Othoni: dative with adclamavit: ‘they applauded for Nero Otho’.) adclamavit. ipse in suspenso tenuit, vetandi metu vel agnoscendi pudore.