II.
His ac talibus inter spem metumque iactatum (iactatum: iactatum refers to Titus, direct object of vicit.) spes vicit. fuerunt qui accensum desiderio Berenices reginae (Berenices reginae: the beautiful great-granddaughter of Herod the Great of Judaea was loved by Titus, who planned to marry her, though she was over forty and he twenty-nine: she followed Titus to Rome , but was later dismissed; Berenice, a Greek name, is nominative and Berenices genitive; for declension of Greek names cf. B. 22 and 27.) vertisse iter crederent; (fuerunt qui … crederent: fuerunt qui introduces a rel. clause of characteristic requiring subjunctive; cf. A.G. 534, 535.) neque abhorrebat a Berenice iuvenilis animus, sed gerendis rebus nullum ex eo (ex eo: ‘for that reason’) impedimentum. laetam voluptatibus adulescentiam egit, suo quam patris imperio moderatior. igitur oram Achaiae et Asiae ac laeva maris praevectus, (oram Achaiae et Asiae ac laeva maris praevectus: Achaia and Asia are both names of Roman provinces, today’s Greece and part of western Turkey respectively; the past participle praevectus, being deponent and transitive, has active meaning and admits a direct object, ‘having followed the coast of …and the coastal lands on his left, …’; not having compass, ancient mariners hugged the coast for safety and orientation, normally venturing out into the open sea only when a safer choice was not available.) Rhodum et Cyprum insulas, inde Syriam audentioribus spatiis petebat. atque illum cupido incessit adeundi visendique templum (illum … adeundi visendique templum: illum is emphatic, ‘that famous temple’; adeundi and visendi are good examples of genitive gerund followed by direct object.) Paphiae Veneris, (Paphiae Veneris: Paphos is a town on the western coast of Cyprus, where — according to myth – Venus, newly born from the foam of the sea, was driven by the wind.) inclitum per indigenas advenasque. haud fuerit longum (haud fuerit longum: ‘it should not take too long’; fuerit is potential perfect subjunctive, rather than future perfect; both present and perfect subjunctive are found expressing potential sense with no appreciable difference in meaning.) initia religionis, templi ritum, formam deae (neque enim alibi sic habetur (neque … alibi sic habetur: ‘[the form of the goddess] is not conceived in this manner anywhere else.’) paucis disserere.