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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 6 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 7 (search)
In this conjuncture it happened
that tidings of the deaths of Fonteius Capito and Clodius Macer reached the
capital. Macer was executed in Africa, where he was
undoubtedly fomenting sedition, by Trebonius Garutianus the
ATTITUDES TOWARDS GALBA
procurator, who acted on Galba's
authority; Capito fell in Germany, while he was
making similar attempts, by the hands of Cornelius Aquinus and Fabius
Valens, legates of legions, who did not wait for an order. There were
however some who believed that Capito, though foully stained with avarice
and profligacy, had yet abstained from all thought of revolution, that this
was a treacherous accusation invented by the commanders themselves, who had
urged him to take up arms, when they found themselves unable to prevail, and
that Galba had approved of the deed, either from weakness of character, or
to avoid investigation into the circumstances of acts which could not be
altered. Both executions, however, were unfavourably regarded; indee
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 8 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 9 (search)
The army of Upper Germany despised their legate, Hordeonius Flaccus,
who, disabled by age and lameness, had no strength of character and no
authority; even when the soldiery were quiet, he could not control them,
much more in their fits of frenzy were they irritated by the very feebleness
of his restraint. The legions of Lower Germany had
long been without any general of consular rank, until, by the appointment of
Galba, Aulus Vitellius took the command. He was son of that Vitellius who
Lower Germany had
long been without any general of consular rank, until, by the appointment of
Galba, Aulus Vitellius took the command. He was son of that Vitellius who
was censor and three times consul; this was thought sufficient
recommendation. In the army of Britain there was no
angry feeling; indeed no troops behaved more blamelessly throughout all the
troubles of these civil wars, either because they were far away and
separated by the ocean from the rest of the empire, or because continual
warfare had taught them to concentrate their hatred on the enemy. Illyricum too was quiet, though the legions drawn from
that province by Nero had, while linge
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 12 (search)
A few
days after the 1st of January, there arrived
from Belgica despatches of Pompeius Propinquus, the
Procurator, to this effect; that the legions of Upper
Germany had broken through the obligation of their military oath, and
were demanding another emperor, but conceded the power of choice to the
Senate and people of Rome, in the hope that a more
lenient view might be taken of their revolt. These tidings hastened the
plans of Galba, who had been long debating the subject of adoption with
himself and with his intimate friends. There was indeed no more frequent
subject of conversation during these months, at first because men had
liberty and inclination to talk of such matters, afterwards because the
feebleness of Galba was notorious. Few had any discrimination or patriotism,
many had foolish hopes for themselves, and spread interested reports, in
which they named this or that person to whom they might be related as friend
or dependant. They were also moved by hatred of T
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 14 (search)
When Galba
heard of the mutiny in Germany, though nothing was
as yet known about Vitellius, he felt anxious as to the direction which the
violence of the legions might take, while he could not trust even the
soldiery of the capital. He therefore resorted to what he supposed to be the
only remedy, and held a council for the election of an emperor. To this he
summoned, besides Vinius and Laco, Marius Celsus, consul elect, and
Ducennius Geminus, prefect of the city. Having first said a few words about
his advanced years, he ordered Piso Licinianus to be summoned. It is
uncertain whether he acted on his own free choice, or, as believed by some,
under the influence of Laco, who through Rubellius Plautus had cultivated
the friendship of Piso. But, cunningly enough, it was as a stranger that
Laco supported him, and the high character of Piso gave weight to his
advice. Piso, who was the son of M. Crassus and Scribonia, and thus of noble
descent on both sides, was in look and man
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 19 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 26 (search)
The contagion
spread to the legions and the auxiliary troops, already excited by the news
of the wavering loyalty of the army of Germany. So
ripe were the disaffected for mutiny and so close the secresy preserved by
the loyal, that they would actually have seized Otho on the 14th of January,
as he was returning from dinner, had they not been deterred by the risks of
darkness, the inconvenient dispersion of the troops over the whole city, and
the difficulty of concerted action among a half-intoxicated crowd. It was no
care for the state, which they deliberately meditated polluting with the
blood of their Emperor; it was a fear lest in the darkness of night any one
who presented himself to the
DISAFFECTION OF
SOLDIERY
soldiers of the Pannonian or German army might be fixed on
instead of Otho, whom few of them knew. Many symptoms of the approaching
outburst were repressed by those who were in the secret. Some hints, which
had reached Galba's ears, were turned into ridicule
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 50 (search)
The alarm of
the capital, which trembled to see the atrocity of these recent crimes, and
to think of the old character of Otho, was heightened into terror by fresh
news about Vitellius, news which had been suppressed before the murder of
Galba, in order to make it appear that only the army of Upper Germany had revolted. That two men, who for
shamelessness, indolence, and profligacy, were the most worthless of
mortals, had been selected, it would seem, by some fatality to ruin the
Empire, became the open complaint, not only of the Senate and the Knights,
who had some stake and interest in the country, but even of the common
people. It was no longer to the late horrors of a dreadful peace, but to the
recollections of the civil wars, that men recurred, speaking of how the
capital had been taken by Roman armies, how Italy
had been wasted and the provinces spoiled, of Pharsalia, Philippi, Perusia, and Mutina, and all the
familiar names of great public disasters. "The world,"
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 52 (search)
Just before December 1 in
the preceding year, Aulus Vitellius had visited Lower
Germany, and had carefully inspected the winter quarters of the
legions. Many had their rank restored to them, sentences of degradation were
cancelled, and marks of disgrace partially removed. In most cases he did but
court popularity, in some he exercised a sound discretion, making a salutary
change from the meanness and rapacity which Fonteius Capito had shown in
bestowing and withdrawing promotion. But he seemed a greater personage than
a simple consular legate, and all his acts were invested with an unusual
importance. Though sterner judges pronounced Vitellius to be a man of low
tastes, those who were partial to him attributed to geniality and good
nature the immoderate and indiscriminate prodigality, with which he gave
away what was his own, and squandered what did not belong to him. Besides
this, men themselves eager for power were ready to represent his very vices
as virtues. As there