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... et honore praecipuo habitam, quodque litus iuxta, non ventis...

quodque: "que" indicates this clause is parallel to the first, which is o.o., so Tacitus combines o.o. with a substantive "quod" clause, "quod" here meaning "the fact that" followed by subjunctive. "Quod" meaning "because" can also introduce adverbial clauses in the indicative; but "because" does not fit the syntax or the sense here: Agrippina was reflecting ("reputans") on "the fact that the boat had collapsed, not driven by the wind or struck by rocks...."