Hist. 2.2.1Hīs ac tālibus inter spem metumque iactātum spēs vīcit.As he was tossed between hope and fear by these and similar considerations, hope won. Hist. 2.2.1Fuērunt quī accēnsum dēsīderiō Berenīcēs rēgīnae vertisse iter crēderent;There were those who believed that he had turned back, fired by longing for Queen Berenice; Hist. 2.2.1neque abhorrēbat ā Berenīcē iuvenīlis animus, sed gerendīs rēbus nūllum ex eō impedīmentum.and indeed his youthful heart was not averse to Berenice, but no hindrance to public business came from it. Hist. 2.2.1Laetam voluptātibus adulēscentiam ēgit, suō quam patris imperiō moderātior.He spent a youth that delighted in pleasures, and was more restrained in his own reign than in his father's. Hist. 2.2.1Igitur ōram Achāiae et Asiae ac laeva maris praevectus, Rhodum et Cyprum īnsulās, inde Syriam audentiōribus spatiīs petēbat.So, sailing past the coast of Achaia and Asia and the shores on the left of the sea, he made for the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and from there for Syria, by bolder stretches. Hist. 2.2.1Atque illum cupīdō incessit adeundī vīsendīque templum Paphiae Veneris, inclitum per indigenās advenāsque.And a desire came upon him to visit and see the temple of Paphian Venus, famous among natives and strangers alike.
Hist. 2.2.1Haud fuerit longum initia religiōnis, templī rītum, fōrmam deae (neque enim alibī sīc habētur) paucīs disserere.It will not take long to set out briefly the origins of the cult, the ritual of the temple and the form of the goddess (for she is not represented in this way anywhere else).