Thrace was held by Rhoemetalces, and the
sons of Cotys; and both banks of the Danube by four legions; two in
Pannonia, two in Moesia. In Dalmatia likewise were placed two; who, by the
situation of the country, were at hand to support the former, and had not
far to march into Italy, were any sudden succours required there: though
Rome too had her peculiar soldiery; three city cohorts, and nine
Praetorian, enlisted chiefly out of Etruria and Umbria, or from the
ancient Latium and the old Roman colonies. In the several Provinces,
besides, were disposed, according to their situation and necessity, the
fleets of the several confederates, with their squadrons and battalions; a
number of forces not much different from all the rest: but the particular
detail would be uncertain; since, according to the exigency of times, they
often shifted stations, with numbers sometimes enlarged, sometimes
reduced.
It will, I believe, fall in properly here to review also the other parts
of the Administration, and by what measures it was hitherto conducted,
till with the beginning of this year the Government of Tiberius began to
wax worse.
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