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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 100 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 9 (search)
Then Antonius by a sudden movement fell upon the
outposts of the enemy, and made trial of their courage in a
slight skirmish, the combatants separating on equal terms. Soon
afterwards, Cæcina strongly fortified a camp between Hostilia, a village belonging to Verona, and the marshes of the river Tartarus, where his position was secure, as his rear was
covered by the river, and his flank by intervening marshes. Had he only been
loyal, those two legions, which had not been joined by the army of Mœsia, might have been crushed by the united
strength of the Vitellianists, or driven back and compelled to evacuate Italy in a disgraceful retreat. Cæcina, however,
by various delays betrayed to the enemy the early opportunities of the
campaign, assailing by letters those whom it was easy to drive out by force
of arms, until by his envoys he settled the conditions of his treachery. In
this interval Aponius Saturninus came up with the 7th legion (Claudius's).
This legion was commanded by
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 14 (search)
Joining one and all in these cries, by which each
expressed his own vexation, they proceeded, following the lead of the fifth
legion, to replace the images of Vitellius, and to put Cæcina in
irons. They elected to the command Fabius Fabullus, legate of the fifth
legion, and Cassius Longus, prefect of the camp; they massacred the soldiers
from three Liburnian ships, who happened to fall in their way, but who were
perfectly ignorant and innocent of these proceedings; they then abandoned
the camp, and, after breaking down the bridge, fell back on Hostilia, and thence on Cremona,
in order to effect a junction with the two legions, the 1st Italica and the
21st Rapax, which, with a portion of the cavalry, Cæcina had sent on
to occupy Cremon
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 21 (search)
The soldiers, however, were
impatient, and a mutiny had almost broken out, when some cavalry, who had
advanced to the very walls of Cremona, seized some
stragglers from the town, from whose information it was ascertained, that
the six legions of Vitellius and the entire army which had been quartered at
Hostilia had on that very day marched a distance of
thirty miles, and having heard of the defeat of their comrades, were
preparing for battle, and would soon be coming up. This alarm opened the
ears that had before been deaf to their general's advice. The 13th legion
was ordered to take up its position on the raised causeway of the Via Postumia, supported on the left by the 7th (Galba's)
which was posted in the plain, next came the 7th (Claudius'), defended in
front by a field-ditch, such being the character of the ground. On the right
was the 8th legion, drawn up in an open space, and then the 3rd, whose ranks
were divided by some thick brushwood. Such was the arrangement
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 40 (search)
Meanwhile Fabius Valens, who was moving along with a vast and
luxurious train of concubines and eunuchs too tardily for a general about to
take the field, received speedy intelligence of the betrayal of the Ravenna fleet by Lucilius Bassus. Had he hastened the
march which he had then begun, he might have come up with Cæcina while
still undecided, or have reached the legions previous to the decisive
action. Some advised him to take a few of his most devoted soldiers, and,
avoiding Ravenna, to hurry on by unfrequented paths
to Hostilia or Cremona.
Others thought that he should summon the Prætorian cohorts from Rome, and then force his way with a strong body of
troops. But with a ruinous delay he wasted in deliberation the opportunities
of action. Eventually he rejected both plans, and did what is the very worst
thing in circumstances of peril, attempted a middle course, and was neither
bold enough on the one hand, nor cautious enough on the othe