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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 17 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 27 (search)
The effect of
this disaster on the Vitellianists was not so much to drive them to fear as
to draw them to obedience. Nor was this the case only among the troops of
Cæcina, who indeed laid all the blame upon his soldiers, more ready,
as he said, for mutiny than for battle. The forces also of Fabius Valens,
who had now reached Ticinum, laid aside their
contempt for the enemy, and anxious to retrieve their credit began to yield
a more respectful and uniform obedience to their general. A serious mutiny,
however, had raged among them, of which, as it was not convenient to
interrupt the orderly narrative of Cæcina's operations, I shall take
up the history at an earlier period. I have already described how the
Batavian cohorts who separated from the 14th legion during the Neronian war,
hearing on their way to Britain of the rising of
Vitellius, joined Fabius Valens in the country of the Lingones. They behaved
themselves insolently, boasting, as they visited the quarters of the
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 30 (search)
While they were fortifying a
camp at Ticinum, the news of Cæcina's defeat
reached them, and the mutiny nearly broke out afresh from an impression that
underhand dealing and delay on the part of Valens had kept them away from
the battle. They refused all rest; they would not wait for their general:
they advanced in front of the standards,
JUNCTURE
OF VITELLIANIST ARMIES
and hurried on the standard-bearers. After a
rapid march they joined Cæcina. The character of Valens did not stand
well with Cæcina's army. They complained that, though so much weaker
in numbers, they had been exposed to the whole force of the enemy, thus at
once excusing themselves, and extolling, in the implied flattery, the
strength of the new arrivals, who might, they feared, despise them as beaten
and spiritless soldiers. Though Valens had the stronger army, nearly double
the number of legions and auxiliaries, yet the partialities of the soldiers
inclined to Cæcina, not only from the geniality of he
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 68 (search)
Though he had thus quietly
divided the conquered party, there arose a disturbance among the conquerors.
It began in sport, but the number of those who fell aggravated the horrors
of the war. Vitellius had sat down to a banquet at Ticinum, and had invited Verginius to be his guest. The
legates and tribunes always follow the character of the Emperor, and either
imitate his strictness, or indulge in early conviviality. And the soldiers
in like manner are either diligent or lax in their duty. About Vitellius all
was disorder and drunkenness, more like a nocturnal feast and revel than a
properly disciplined camp. Thus it happened that two soldiers, one of whom
belonged to the 5th legion, while the other was one of the Gallic
auxiliaries, challenged each other in sport to a wrestling match. The
legionary was thrown, and the Gaul taunted him. The
soldiers who had assembled to witness the contest took different sides, till
the legionaries made a sudden and murderous attack on the
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 88 (search)
There were many
sanguinary encounters between the soldiers; for ever since the mutiny which
broke out at Ticinum there had lingered a spirit of
dissension between the legions and the auxiliary troops, though they could
unite whenever they had to fight with the rustic population. The most
terrible massacre took place at the 7th milestone from Rome. Vitellius was distributing to each soldier
provisions ready dressed on the same abundant scale as the gladiators'
rations, and the populace had poured forth, and spread themselves throughout
the entire camp. Some with the frolicsome humour of slaves robbed the
careless soldiers by slily cutting their belts, and then asked them whether
they were armed. Unused to insult, the spirit of the soldiers resented the
jest. Sword in hand they fell upon the unarmed people. Among the slain was
the father of a soldier, who was with his son. He was afterwards recognised,
and his murder becoming generally known, they spared the innocent crowd.