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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 2 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 23 (search)
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
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 59 (search)
As the occupation of Mevania, and the
apparent revival of the war with new vigour, had struck terror into Italy, so now did the timorous retreat of Vitellius give
an unequivocal bias in favour of the Flavianists. The Samnites, the Peligni,
and the Marsi, roused themselves, jealous at having been anticipated by Campania, and, as men who serve a new master, were
energetic in all the duties of war. The army, however, was much distressed
by bad weather in its passage over the Apennines,
and since they could hardly struggle through the snow, though their march
was unmolested, they perceived what danger they would have had to encounter,
had not Vitellius been made to turn back by that good fortune, which, not
less often than the wisdom of their counsels, helped the Flavianist
generals. Here they fell in with Petilius Cerialis, who had escaped the
sentries of Vitellius by a rustic disguise and by his knowledge of the
country. There was a near relationship between Cerialis and Vesp
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)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 66 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 77 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 3 (search)
About the same time Lucilius
Bassus was sent with some light cavalry to establish order in Campania, where the towns were still disturbed, but by
mutual animosities rather than by any spirit of opposition to the new
Emperor. The sight of the soldiery restored quiet, and the smaller colonies
escaped unpunished. At Capua, however, the third
legion was stationed to pass the winter, and the noble families suffered
severely. Tarracina, on the other hand, received no
relief; so much more inclined are we to requite an injury than an
obligation. Gratitude is a burden, while there seems to be a profit in
revenge. They were consoled by seeing the slave of Verginius Capito, whom I
have mentioned as the betrayer of Tarracina,
gibbeted in the very rings of knighthood, the gift of Vitellius, which they
had seen him wear.
IMPERIAL HONORS FOR
VESPASIAN
At Rome the Senate, delighted and
full of confident hope, decreed to Vespasian all the honours customarily
bestowed on the Emperors. A