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Galatiam ac Pamphyliam provincias (Galatiam ac Pamphyliam provincias: Galatia, Pamphylia, and Lycia formed at this time a single province; Galatia was south of Bithynia and Pontus, west of Cappadocia, north of Pamphylia, and east of Asia; Pamphylia and Lycia occupied most of the coastal areas of southern Turkey.) Calpurnio Asprenati (Calpurnio Asprenati: Calpurnius Asprenas was a relative of Piso, Galba’s adoptive son.) regendas Galba permiserat. datae e classe Misenensi (e classe Misenensi: Misenum was the main station of the Mediterrenean fleet at the north end of the gulf of Naples.) duae triremes ad prosequendum, (ad prosequendum: ‘to accompany’) cum quibus Cythnum insulam tenuit: nec defuere qui trierarchos nomine Neronis accirent. (nec defuere qui trierarchos nomine Neronis accirent: ‘there were many on hand who summoned the captains in Nero’s name’; nec defuere qui is equivalent to multi fuere qui, a conjunctional phrase that introduces a relative clause of characteristic with subjunctive; cf. A.G. 534-535 and G. 631.) is in maestitiam compositus et fidem suorum quondam militum invocans, ut eum in Syria aut Aegypto sisterent orabat. trierarchi, nutantes seu dolo, (nutantes seu dolo: ‘wavering or intending to deceive’) adloquendos sibi milites (adloquendos sibi milites [esse]: example of passive periphrastic conjugation in indirect speech: lit. ‘[they said] that the soldiers were first to be addressed by them’; sibi is dative of agent. In direct speech: milites adloquendi sunt nobis; cf. A.G. 194 and 374, a.) et paratis omnium animis reversuros firmaverunt. sed Asprenati cuncta ex fide (ex fide: ‘faithfully’, ‘as morally obliged to do’) nuntiata, cuius cohortatione expugnata navis et interfectus quisquis ille erat. corpus, insigne oculis comaque et torvitate vultus, in Asiam atque inde Romam pervectum est.