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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 6 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 81 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 82 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 6 (search)
Antonius, as he hurried with
the veteran soldiers of the cohorts and part of the cavalry to invade Italy, was accompanied by Arrius Varus, an energetic
soldier. Service under Corbulo, and successes in Armenia, had gained for him this reputation; yet it was
generally said, that in secret conversations with Nero he had calumniated
Corbulo's high qualities. The favour thus infamously acquired made him a
centurion of the first rank, yet the ill-gotten prosperity of the moment
afterwards turned to his destruction. Primus and Varus, having occupied Aquileia, were joyfully welcomed in the neighbourhood,
and in the towns of Opitergium and Altinum. At Altinum a force was
left to oppose the Ravenna fleet, the defection of
which from Vitellius was not yet known. They next attached to their party
Patavium and Ateste. There
they learnt that three cohorts, belonging to Vitellius, and the Sebonian
Horse had taken up a position at the Forum Alieni, where they had thrown a
bridge across