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Error notice: The Tacitus Annals IV: A Selection edition (ISBN: 9781350060302) contains extra text in chapter 4 after adversus habebatur.
[2] Exin vetus et saepe simulatum proficiscendi in provincias consilium refertur. multitudinem veteranorum praetexebat imperator et dilectibus supplendos exercitus: nam voluntarium militem deesse, ac si suppeditet, non eadem virtute ac modestia agere, quia plerumque inopes ac vagi sponte militiam sumant. [3] percensuitque cursim numerum legionum et quas provincias tutarentur. quod mihi quoque exequendum reor, quae tunc Romana copia in armis, qui socii reges, quanto sit angustius imperitatum.
We can confirm that the above text is not part of the AS Level prescription (examined in 2022 and 2023) nor the A Level Group 1 prescription (examined in 2023 and 2024).
