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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Otho (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 9 (search)
he war, as the enemy were distressed by famine and the straitness of their quarters, yet he resolved with equal rashness to force them to an engagement as soon as possible; whether from impatience of prolonged anxiety, and in the hope of bringing matters to an issue before the arrival of Vitellius, or because he could not resist the ardour of the troops, who were all clamorous for battle. He was not, however, present at any of those which ensued, but stayed behind at Brixellum.A town between Mantua and Cremona. He had the advantage in three slight engagements, near the Alps, about Placentia, and a place called Castor's;The temple of Castor. It stood about twelve miles from Cremona. Tacitus gives some details of this action. Hist. ii. 243. but was, by a fraudulent stratagem of the enemy, defeated in the last and greatest battle at Bedriacum.Both Greek and Latin authors differ in the mode of spelling the name of this place, the first syllable being written Beb, Bet, and Bret. It is now
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitellius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)
olony of that name, which, at a very remote period of time, they desired leave from the government to defend against the Aequicolae, The Aequicola were probably a tribe inhabiting the heights in the neighbourhood of Rome. Virgil describes them, Aen. vii. 746. with a force raised by their own family only: also that, in the time of the war with the Samnites, some of the Vitellii who went with the troops levied for the security of Apulia, settled at Nuceria, Nuceria, now Nocera, is a town near Mantua; but Livy, in treating of the war with the Samnites, always speaks of Luceria, which Strabo calls a town in Apulia. and their descendants, a long time afterwards, returned again to Rome, and were admitted into the patrician order. On the other hand, the generality of writers say that the founder of the family was a freedman. Cassius Severus Cassius Severus is mentioned before, in AUGUSTUS, c. lvi.; CALIGULA, c. xvi., c. and some others relate that he was likewise a cobbler, whose son havin