摘要：The conclusion of the siege of Jerusalem marked the virtual end of the Judaean campaign1 ). Titus could well have returned to Vespasian and celebrated their joint triumph with suitable pompand display: properly presented, it would serve to underline their military reputation in contrast with the ineptness of Nero and the rest. But he remained where he was: winter was close2 ). So the conqueror of Jerusalem, who had crossed from Achaea to Alexandria in the middle of winter3 ), who in the winter of the following year had reached Corinth on his way to Rome to be adopted by Galba, according to the official propaganda4 ), now apparently delayed the politically significant triumph because winter was dose. He did immediately send the legion XII Fulminata to Melitenes), but did not return the other legions6 ) (and their auxiliaries) to their appropriate provinces, where their services could well have been needed or even vital, for Vitellius had been dead less than a year; instead, he kept them with hirn and engaged in what Josephus seems to indicate was a leisurely and meandering tour of the east. In all this there was a purpose, but it is not immediately obvious from a reading of his text.
