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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 33 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 39 (search)
Otho
having started for Brixellum, the honours of supreme
command devolved on his brother Titianus, while the real power and control
were in the hands of the prefect Proculus. Celsus and Paullinus, as no one
made any use of their skill, did but screen with their idle title of general
the blunders of others. The tribunes and centurions were perplexed to see
that better men were despised, and that the most worthless carried the day.
The common soldiers were full of eagerness, but liked to criticise rather
than to obey the orders of their officers. It was resolved to move the camp
forward to the fourth milestone from Bedriacum, but
it was done so unskilfully, that though it was spring, and there were so
many rivers in the neighbourhood, the troops were distressed for want of
water. Then the subject of giving battle was discussed, Otho in his
despatches ever urging them to make haste, and the soldiers demanding that
the Emperor should be present at the conflict; many begged
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 51 (search)
At the funeral
the mutinous spirit of the soldiers was kindled afresh by their sorrow and
regret, and there was no one to check them. They turned to Verginius, and in
threatening language, at one time besought him to accept the Imperial
dignity, at another, to act as envoy to Cæcina and Valens. Verginius
secretly departed by a back way from his house, and thus managed to elude
them when they burst in. Rubrius Gallus was charged with the petition of the
cohorts which had been quartered at Brixellum. An
amnesty was immediately granted to them, while at the same time the forces
which had been commanded by Flavius Sabinus signified through him their
submission to the conqueror
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 54 (search)
Lucius Vitellius, the brother of the Emperor, was
present at their deliberations, and was preparing to receive their
flatteries, when of a sudden Cœnus, a freedman of Nero, threw them all
into consternation by an outrageous falsehood. He asserted that, by the
arrival of the 14th legion, joined to the forces from Brixellum, the victorious army had been routed and the
fortunes of the party changed. The object of this fabrication was that the
passports of Otho, which were beginning to be disregarded, might through
more favourable news recover their validity. Cœnus was conveyed with
rapidity to the capital, but a few days after suffered the penalty of his
crime by the order of Vitellius. The peril of the Senators was increased by
the soldiers of Otho's army believing that the intelligence thus brought was
authentic. Their alarm was heightened by the fact that their departure from
Mutina and their desertion of the party had the
appearance of a public resolution. They did not m