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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 2 (search)
I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightened in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil wars; there were more with foreign
enemies; there were often wars that had both characters at once. There was
success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in
Illyricum; Gaul wavered in
its allegiance; Britain was thoroughly subdued and
immediately abandoned; the tribes of the Suevi and the Sarmatæ rose in
concert against us; the Dacians had the glory of inflicting as well as
suffering defeat; the armies of Parthia were all but
set in motion by the cheat of a counterfeit Nero. Now too Italy was prostrated by disasters either entirely novel,
or that recurred only after a long succession of ages; cities in Campania's
richest plains were swallowed up and overwhelmed; Rome was wasted by conflagrations, its oldest temples
consumed, and the Capitol itself
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 9 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 52 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 59 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 61 (search)
After the army of
Britain had joined him, Vitellius, who had now a
prodigious force and vast resources, determined that there should be two
generals and two lines of march for the contemplated war. Fabius Valens was
ordered to win over, if possible, or, if they refused his overtures, to
ravage the provinces of Gaul and to invade Italy by way of the Cottian
Alps; Cæcina to take the nearer route, and to march down from
the
Penine range. To Valens were entrusted the picked troops of the army of
Lower Germany with the eagle of the 5th legion and
the auxiliary infantry and cavalry, to the number of 40,000 armed men;
Cæcina commanded 30,000 from Upper Germany,
the strength of his force being one legion, the 21st. Both had also some
German auxiliaries, and from this source Vitellius, who was to follow with
his whole military strength, completed his own force
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 11 (search)
Meanwhile the campaign had opened favourably for Otho, at whose bidding the
armies of Dalmatia and Pannonia had begun to move. These comprised four legions
from each of which two thousand troops were sent on in advance. The 7th had
been raised by Galba, the 11th, 13th, and 14th were veteran soldiers, the
14th having particularly distinguished itself by quelling the revolt in Britain. Nero had added to their reputation by selecting
them as his most effective troops. This had made them long faithful to Nero,
and kindled their zeal for Otho. But their self-confidence induced a
tardiness of movement proportionate to their strength and solidity. The
auxiliary infantry and cavalry moved in advance of the main body of the
legions. The capital itself contributed no contemptible force, namely five
Prætorian cohorts, some troops of cavalry, and the first legion, and
together with these, 2000 gladiators, a disreputable kind of auxiliaries,
but employed throughout the civil wars even
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 27 (search)
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,
hav
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 37 (search)