LVIII.
Isdem diebus accessisse partibus utramque Mauretaniam, interfecto procuratore (procuratore: imperial provinces were usually governed by a procurator chosen by the emperor.) Albino, nuntii venere. Lucceius Albinus a Nerone Mauretaniae Caesariensi praepositus, addita per Galbam Tingitanae provinciae (Mauretaniae Caesariensi …Tingitianae: Mauretania Caesariensis occupied the western half of today’s Algeria and eastern Morocco; western Morocco was Mauretania Tingitiana) administratione, haud spernendis viribus agebat. (haud spernendis viribus agebat: ‘was ruling with hardly insignificant forces’) decem novem cohortes, quinque alae, ingens Maurorum (Maurorum: the Mauri, in English ‘moors’, the Berber population of Mauritania) numerus aderat, (aderat: the verb agrees with its nearest subject, numerus.) per latrocinia et raptus apta bello manus. caeso Galba in Othonem pronus nec Africa contentus Hispaniae angusto freto diremptae imminebat. (Hispaniae angusto freto diremptae imminebat: ‘was threatening Spain, separated [from Mauritania] by a narrow straight’. Hispaniae: dat with imminebat, ‘was a threat to …’.) inde Cluvio Rufo metus, (inde Cluvio Rufo metus: lit.‘from that [rose] a new concern for Cluvius Rufus’. For Cluvius Rufus see Book 1, ch. 8.) et decimam legionem propinquare litori ut transmissurus (ut transmissurus: ‘as if he were about to take the legion across’; ut is here conditional particle, like quasi.) iussit; praemissi centuriones qui Maurorum animos Vitellio conciliarent. neque arduum fuit, magna per provincias Germanici exercitus fama; spargebatur (spargebatur: impersonal sense: ‘it was being bruited about that …’.) insuper spreto procuratoris vocabulo (spreto procuratoris vocabulo: ‘the name of imperial governor being despised, …’) Albinum insigne regis et Iubae nomen (Iubae nomen: the name of an illustrious past ruler of Mauritania) usurpare.