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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 42 (search)
The garrison of Ariminum were discouraged by the departure of Valens,
and Cornelius Fuscus, bringing up his army and disposing his Liburnian ships
at the nearest points of the shore, invested the place by sea and land. His
troops occupied the plains of Umbria and that
portion of the Picentine territory that is washed by the Adriatic, and now the whole of Italy was divided by the range of the Apennines between Vespasian and Vitellius. Valens,
having started from the bay of Pisa, was compelled,
either by a calm or a contrary wind, to put in at the port of Hercules
Monœcus. Near this place was stationed Marius Maturus, procurator of
the Maritime Alps, who was loyal to Vitellius, and
who, though every thing around him was hostile, had not yet thrown off his
allegiance. While courteously receiving Valens, he deterred him by his
advice from rashly invading Gallia Narbonensis. And
now the fidelity of the rest of the party was weakened by their fears. In
fact the procurator Vale
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 50 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 52 (search)
Antonius and the other generals
of the party judged it expedient to send forward the cavalry and explore the
whole of Umbria for some point where the Apennines presented a more gentle ascent, and also to
bring up the eagles and standards and all the troops at Verona, while they were to cover the Padus and the sea with convoys. Some there were among
the generals who were contriving delays, for Antonius in fact was now
becoming too great a man, and their hopes from Mucianus were more definite.
That commander, troubled at so speedy a success, and imagining that unless
he occupied Rome in person he should lose all share
in the glory of the war, continued to write in ambiguous terms to Varus and
Antonius, enlarging at one time on the necessity of following up their
operations, at another on the advantage of delay, and with expressions so
worded that he could, according to the event, repudiate a disastrous, or
claim a successful policy. To Plotius Griphus, who had lately been r
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 55 (search)
Vitellius, who seemed like a man roused from
slumber, ordered Julius Priscus and Alfenius Varus, with fourteen of the
Prætorian cohorts and the entire force of cavalry, to occupy the Apennines. A legion of troops drafted from the fleet
followed. So many thousand troops, comprising the picked men and horses of
the army, had they been under the direction of a different general, would
have been quite equal even to aggressive operations. The rest of the
Prætorian cohorts were entrusted to Lucius Vitellius, brother of the
Emperor, for the defence of the capital. Vitellius, while he abated nothing
of his habitual indulgence, with a precipitancy prompted by alarm,
anticipated the elections, at which he appointed consuls for several years.
With a profuse liberality, he granted treaties to allies, and the rights of
Latin citizenship to foreigners; some he relieved by the remission of
tribute, others by exemptions; in a word, utterly careless of the future, he
mutilated the resourc
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 56 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 59 (search)
As the occupation of Mevania, and the
apparent revival of the war with new vigour, had struck terror into Italy, so now did the timorous retreat of Vitellius give
an unequivocal bias in favour of the Flavianists. The Samnites, the Peligni,
and the Marsi, roused themselves, jealous at having been anticipated by Campania, and, as men who serve a new master, were
energetic in all the duties of war. The army, however, was much distressed
by bad weather in its passage over the Apennines,
and since they could hardly struggle through the snow, though their march
was unmolested, they perceived what danger they would have had to encounter,
had not Vitellius been made to turn back by that good fortune, which, not
less often than the wisdom of their counsels, helped the Flavianist
generals. Here they fell in with Petilius Cerialis, who had escaped the
sentries of Vitellius by a rustic disguise and by his knowledge of the
country. There was a near relationship between Cerialis and Ves