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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 53 (search)
These arguments roused the
indolent temper of the man, yet roused him rather to wish than to hope for
the throne. Meanwhile however in Upper Germany
Cæcina, young and handsome, of commanding stature, and of boundless
ambition, had attracted the favour of the soldiery by his skilful oratory
and his dignified mien. This man had, when quæstor in Bætica, attached himself with zeal to the party of
Galba, who had appointed him, young as he was, to the command of a legion,
but, it being afterwards discovered that he had embezzled the public money,
Galba directed that he should be prosecuted for peculation. Cæcina,
grievously offended, determined to throw everything into confusion, and
under the disasters of his country to conceal his private dishonour. There
were not wanting in the army itself the elements of civil strife. The whole
of it had taken part in the war against Vindex; it had not passed over to
Galba till Nero fell; even then in this transference of its allegiance it
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 78 (search)
By similar bounty Otho sought to win the affections of the
cities and provinces. He bestowed on the colonies of Hispalis and Emerita some
additional families, on the entire people of the Lingones the privileges of
Roman citizenship; to the province of Bætica
he joined the states of Mauritania, and granted
to Cappadocia and Africa new
rights, more for display than for permanent utility. In the midst of these
measures, which may find an excuse in the urgency of the crisis and the
anxieties which pressed upon him, he still did not forget his old amours,
and by a decree of the Senate restored the statues of Poppæa. It is
even believed that he thought of celebrating the memory of Nero in the hope
of winning the populace, and persons were found to exhibit statues of that
Prince. There were days on which the people and the soldiers greeted him
with shouts of Nero Otho, as if they were heaping on him new distinction and
honour. Otho himself wavered in suspense, afraid to f