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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 58 (search)
Vitellius, when informed
of these events, left a portion of his army at Narnia under the command of the prefect of the
Prætorian Guard, and deputed his brother Lucius with six cohorts of
infantry and 500 cavalry to encounter the danger that now threatened him on
the side of Campania. Sick at heart, he found relief
in the zeal of the soldiers and in the shouts with which the people
clamoured for arms, while he gave the delusive name of an army and of Roman
legions to a cowardly mob, that would not venture on any thing beyond words.
At the instance of his freedmen (for his friends were the less faithful the
more distinguished their rank) he ordered the tribes to be convoked, and to
those who gave in their names administered the oath of service. As the
numbers were excessive, he divided the business of enrolment between the
consuls. He required the Senators to furnish a prescribed number of slaves
and a certain weight of silver. The Roman Knights offered their services and
m
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 60 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 63 (search)
Finding all their
hopes cut off, the troops of Vitellius, intending to pass over to the side
of the conqueror, but to do so with honour, marched down with their
standards and colours into the plains beneath Narnia. The army of Vespasian, prepared and equipped as
if for action, was drawn
up in dense array on both sides of the
road. The Vitellianists were received between the two columns; when they
were thus surrounded, Antonius addressed them kindly. One division was
ordered to remain at Narnia, another at Interamna; with them were left some of the victorious
legions, which would not be formidable to them if they remained quiet, but
were strong enough to crush all turbulence. At the same time Primus and
Varus did not neglect to forward continual messages to Vitellius, offering
him personal safety, the enjoyment of wealth, and a quiet retreat in Campania, provided he would lay down his arms and
surrender himself and his children to Vespasian. Mucianus also wrote to him
to t
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 67 (search)
The ears of Vitellius were deaf to manly counsels.
His whole soul was overwhelmed by a tender anxiety, lest by an obstinate
resistance he might leave the conqueror less mercifully disposed to his wife
and children. He had also a mother old and feeble, but she, expiring a few
days before, escaped by her opportune death the ruin of her house, having
gained from the Imperial dignity of her son nothing but sorrow and a good
name. On the 18th of December, after hearing of the defection of the legion
and the auxiliary infantry which had surrendered at Narnia, he left the palace, clad in mourning robes, and
surrounded by his weeping household. With him went his little son, carried
in a litter, as though in a funeral procession. The greetings of the people
were flattering, but ill-suited to the time; the soldiers preserved an
ominous silence.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 78 (search)
While these
successes were being achieved on the side of Vitellius, the army of
Vespasian had left Narnia, and was passing the
holiday of the Saturnalia in idleness at Ocriculum.
The reason alleged for so injurious a delay was that they might wait for
Mucianus. Some persons indeed there were who assailed Antonius with
insinuations, that he lingered with treacherous intent, after receiving
private letters from Vitellius, which conveyed to him the offer of the
consulship and of the Emperor's daughter in marriage with a vast dowry, as
the price of treason. Others asserted that this was all a fiction, invented
to please Mucianus. Some again alleged that the policy agreed upon by all
the generals was to threaten rather than actually to attack the capital, as
Vitellius' strongest cohorts had revolted from him, and it seemed likely
that, deprived of all support, he would abdicate the throne, but that the
whole plan was ruined by the impatience and subsequent cowardice of Sabinus
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 79 (search)