LXXIX.
Initium ferendi ad Vespasianum imperii Alexandriae (Alexandriae: locative) coeptum, (initium …coeptum: lit. ‘the beginning was begun’; such pleonasms occur in phrases indicating a start, initium incipere, principium incipere, inchoandi exordium coepisse, etc.) festinante Tiberio Alexandro, qui kalendis Iuliis sacramento eius legiones (eius legions: not suae legions, in that Tiberius is not the subject of the rel. clause.) adegit. isque primus principatus dies in posterum celebratus, quamvis Iudaicus exercitus quinto nonas Iulias (quinto nonas Iulias: ‘on the fifth day before the nones of July’; for the nones, to change the Roman date into English, add one to the date of the nones for the month in question and subtract the given number; thus, since in July the nones fall on the seventh day, (7 + 1) – 5 = 3, the third of July.) apud ipsum iurasset, eo ardore ut ne Titus quidem filius expectaretur, (eo ardore ut ne Titus quidem filius expectaretur: the correlatives eo …ut and the presence of ut ne (for ut non), in place of ne, clearly indicate that the clause is consecutive, not final.) Syria remeans et consiliorum inter Mucianum ac patrem nuntius. cuncta impetu militum acta non parata contione, non coniunctis legionibus.