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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 48 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 76 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 87 (search)
Otho, after publicly purifying the city and
weighing various plans for the campaign, determined to march upon Gallia Narbonensis, as the passes of the Penine and Cottian Alps and all the other approaches to Gaul were held by the armies of Vitellius. His fleet was
strong and loyal to his
PRODIGIES; OTHO PREPARES
FORCES
cause, for he had enrolled in the ranks of the legion the
survivors of the slaughter at the Milvian bridge, whom the stern policy of
Galba had retained in custody, while to the rest he had held out hopes of a
more honourable service for the future. To the fleet he had added some city
cohorts, and many of the Prætorians, the stay and strength of his
army, who might at once advise and watch the generals. The command of the
expedition was entrusted to Antonius Novellus and Suedius Clemens,
centurions of the first rank, and Æmilius Pacensis, to whom Otho had
restored the rank of tribune, taken from him by Galba. Oscus, a freedman,
retained the charge of the flee
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 12 (search)
Fortune seemed to smile on his
efforts. Through his fleets, which commanded the sea, he held the greater
part of Italy, even as far as where the chain of the
Maritime Alps begins. The task of attempting the
passage of this chain, and of advancing into the Provincia Narbonensis, he had entrusted to three
generals, Suedius Clemens, Antonius Novellus, and Æmilius Pacensis.
Pacensis, however, was put in irons by his insubordinate troops, Antonius
possessed no kind of authority, and Clemens commanded only for popularity,
and was as reckless in transgressing the good order of military discipline
as he was eager to fight. One would not have thought that it was Italy, the fields, and the habitations of their native
country, that they were passing through. They burnt, spoiled, and plundered,
as if they were among the lands of the foreigner and the cities of a hostile
people, and all with the more frightful effect as nowhere had there been
made any provision against the danger. T
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 14 (search)
Messengers now came in haste and alarm to inform Fabius Valens,
how Otho's fleet was threatening the province of Gallia
Narbonensis, which had sworn allegiance to Vitellius. Envoys from the
colonies were already on the spot praying for aid. He despatched two cohorts
of Tungrian infantry, four squadrons of horse, and all the cavalry of the
Treviri under the command of Julius Classicus. Part of these troops were
retained for the defence of the colony of Forum
Julii, for it was feared, that if the whole army were sent by the route
through the interior, the enemy's fleet might make a rapid movement on the
unprotected coast. Twelve squadrons of cavalry and some picked infantry
advanced against the enemy; they were reinforced by a cohort of Ligurians,
an auxiliary local force of long standing, and five hundred Pannonians, not
yet regularly enrolled. The conflict commenced without delay, the enemy's
line of battle being so arranged, that part of the levies from the fleet,
who
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 15 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 28 (search)
When,
therefore, intelligence reached him that the cavalry of the Treveri and the
Tungrian infantry had been defeated by Otho's fleet, and that Gallia Narbonensis was blockaded, anxious at once to
protect a friendly population, and, like a skilful soldier, to separate
cohorts so turbulent and, while they remained united, so inconveniently
strong, he directed a detachment of the Batavians to proceed to the relief
of the province. This having been heard and become generally known, the
allies were discontented and the legions murmured. "We are being deprived,"
they said, "of the help of our bravest men. Those veteran troops victorious
in so many campaigns, now that the enemy is in sight, are withdrawn, so to
speak, from the very field of battle. If indeed a province be of more
importance than the capital
and the safety of the Empire, let us
all follow them thither, but if the reality, the support, the mainstay of
success, centre in Italy, you must not tear, as it
were, from
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 32 (search)
"The entire army of
Vitellius," he said, "has already arrived. Nor have they much strength in
their rear, since Gaul is ready to rise, and to
abandon the banks of the Rhine, when such hostile
tribes are ready to burst in, would not answer his purpose. A hostile people
and an intervening sea keep from him the army of Britain; Spain is not over full
of troops; Gallia Narbonensis has been cowed by the
attack of our ships and by a defeat; Italy beyond
the Padus is shut in by the Alps, cannot be relieved from the sea, and has been
exhausted by the passage of his army. For that army there is nowhere any
corn, and without supplies an army cannot be kept together. Then the
Germans, the most formidable part of the enemy's forces, should the war be
protracted into the summer, will sink with enfeebled frames under the change
of country and climate. Many a war, formidable in its first impetuosity, has
passed into nothing through the weariness of delay. We, on the other hand,
have
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 41 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 42 (search)