"Vespasian, for the sake of Narcissus, was sent as a lieutenant
of a legion into Germany. Thence he removed into Britain "
battles with the enemy." In Vesp. sect. 4. We may also here note
from Josephus, that Claudius the emperor, who triumphed for the
conquest of Britain, was enabled so to do by Vespasian's conduct
and bravery, and that he is here styled "the father of
Vespasian."

(2) Spanheim and Reland both agree, that the two cities here
esteemed greater than Antioch, the metropolis of Syria, were Rome
and Alexandria; nor is there any occasion for doubt in so plain a
case.

(3) This description of the exact symmetry and regularity of the
Roman army, and of the Roman encampments, with the sounding their
trumpets, etc. and order of war, described in this and the next
chapter, is so very like to the symmetry and regularity of the
people of Israel in the wilderness, (see Description of the
Temples, ch. 9.,) that one cannot well avoid the supposal, that
the one was the ultimate pattern of the other, and that the
tactics of the ancients were taken from the rules given by God to
Moses. And it is thought by some skillful in these matters, that
these accounts of Josephus, as to the Roman camp and armor, and
conduct in war, are preferable to those in the Roman authors
themselves.

(4) I cannot but here observe an Eastern way of speaking,
frequent among them, but not usual among us, where the word
"only" or "alone" is not set down, but perhaps some way supplied
in the pronunciation. Thus Josephus here says, that those of