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Oriens adhuc immotus. Syriam et quattuor legiones obtinebat Licinius Mucianus, vir secundis adversisque iuxta (iuxta: ‘equally’) famosus. insignis amicitias iuvenis ambitiose coluerat; mox attritis opibus, lubrico statu, (lubrico statu: abl. abs.) suspecta etiam Claudii iracundia, in secretum Asiae sepositus tam prope ab exule fuit quam (tam …quam: like ut …ita, tam …quam introduces the dependent and main clause of a comparative sentence.) postea a principe. luxuria industria, comitate adrogantia, malis bonisque artibus mixtus: (mixtus: with abl. of instrument, lit. ‘compounded with’, ‘put together with’) nimiae voluptates, cum vacaret; quotiens expedierat, (quotiens expedierat: lit. ‘each time he had gone off to war’; expedire, here intransitive, has the sense of ‘to set off on a campaign’, ‘to take the field’.) magnae virtutes: palam laudares, (palam laudares: ‘outwardly you would approve of him’; laudares is potential subjunctive with the indefinite second person sing.; both present and imperfect subjunctive are found; cf. A.G. 447, 2.) secreta male audiebant: (secreta male audiebant: lit. ‘his private life did not sound good’, i. e. ‘was ill spoken of’.) sed apud subiectos, apud proximos, apud collegas variis inlecebris potens, (variis inlecebris potens: ‘influential through various allurements’) et cui expeditius fuerit (cui expeditius fuerit: ‘to whom it would be more convenient to …’; subjunctive is required in relative clause containing a potential idea, especially if the antecedent is undefined: such clauses are called Clauses of Characteristic; cf. A.G. 534, 535, B. 283, and G. 631, 2.) tradere imperium quam obtinere. bellum Iudaicum Flavius Vespasianus (ducem eum Nero delegerat) tribus legionibus administrabat. nec Vespasiano adversus Galbam votum aut animus: quippe Titum filium ad venerationem cultumque eius miserat, ut suo loco memorabimus. (ut suo loco memorabimus: cf. Book 2, ch. 1.) occulta fati et ostentis ac responsis destinatum Vespasiano liberisque eius imperium post fortunam credidimus. (occulta … ac … destinatum … imperium … credidimus: credo is here transitive, occulta and imperium being its direct objects.)