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... locis in publicum flueret, custodes; et subsidia reprimendis ignibus...

Here is Funneaux's note on the syntax: The force of ' destinabat ' extending over the whole passage, 'custodes' may be (1) direct object, co-ordinated with the subjunctive clause ' et . . . haberet,' as ' paludes ' above is co-ordinated with the subjunctive clause immediately following it (cf. Intr. II 64 g) ; or (2) nominative, 'essent' having been lost from the MS. in copying or boldly omitted by Tacitus himself.