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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 31 (search)
The soldiers of the
body-guard dispersed, but the rest of the cohort, who shewed no disrespect
to the speaker, displayed their standards, acting, as often happens in a
disturbance, on mere impulse and without any settled plan, rather than, as
was afterwards believed, with treachery and an intention to deceive. Celsus
Marius was sent to the picked troops from the army of Illyricum, then encamped in the Portico of Vipsanius.
Instructions were also given to Amulius Serenus and Quintius Sabinus,
centurions of the first rank, to bring up the German soldiers from the Hall
of Liberty. No confidence was placed in the legion levied from the fleet,
which had been enraged by the massacre of their comrades, whom Galba had
slaughtered immediately on his entry into the capital. Meanwhile Cetrius
Severus, Subrius Dexter, and Pompeius Longinus, all three military tribunes,
proceeded to the Prætorian camp, in the hope that a sedition, which
was but just commencing, and not yet fully matur
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 76 (search)
The first encouraging tidings came to Otho from Illyricum. He heard that the legions of Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Mœsia had sworn allegiance to him. Similar
intelligence was received from Spain, and Cluvius
Rufus was commended in an edict. Immediately afterwards it became known that
Spain had gone over to Vitellius. Even Aquitania, bound though it was by the oath of allegiance
to Otho which Julius Cordus had administered, did not long remain firm.
Nowhere was there any loyalty or affection; men changed from one side to the
other under the pressure of fear or necessity. It was this influence of fear
that drew over to Vitellius the province of Gallia
Narbonensis, which
PRAETORIANS LOYAL;
PROVINCES WAVER
turned readily to the side that was at once the
nearer and the stronger. The distant provinces, and all the armies beyond
the sea, still adhered to Otho, not from any attachment to his party, but
because there was vast weight in the name of the capital and the prestige of
t
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 74 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 85 (search)
Meanwhile the operations
of Vespasian were hastened by the zeal of the army of Illyricum, which had come over to his side. The third
legion set the example to the other legions of Mœsia. These were the eighth and seventh
(Claudius's), who were possessed with a strong liking for
VESPASIAN'S PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
Otho, though they had not
been present at the battle of Bedriacum. They had
advanced to Aquileia, and by roughly repulsing the
messengers who brought the tidings of Otho's defeat, by tearing the colours
which displayed the name of Vitellius, by finally seizing on the military
chest and dividing it among themselves, had assumed a hostile attitude. Then
they began to fear; fear suggested a new thought, that acts might be made a
merit of with Vespasian, which would have to be excused to Vitellius.
Accordingly, the three legions of Mœsia sought
by letter to win over the army of Pannonia, and
prepared to use force if they refused. During this commotion, Aponius
Sat