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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
th
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 11 (search)
Meanwhile the campaign had opened favourably for Otho, at whose bidding the
armies of Dalmatia and Pannonia had begun to move. These comprised four legions
from each of which two thousand troops were sent on in advance. The 7th had
been raised by Galba, the 11th, 13th, and 14th were veteran soldiers, the
14th having particularly distinguished itself by quelling the revolt in Britain. Nero had added to their reputation by selecting
them as his most effective troops. This had made them long faithful to Nero,
and kindled their zeal for Otho. But their self-confidence induced a
tardiness of movement proportionate to their strength and solidity. The
auxiliary infantry and cavalry moved in advance of the main body of the
legions. The capital itself contributed no contemptible force, namely five
Prætorian cohorts, some troops of cavalry, and the first legion, and
together with these, 2000 gladiators, a disreputable kind of auxiliaries,
but employed throughout the civil wars even
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 32 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 86 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 12 (search)
Nor indeed was
there less restlessness among the partisans of Vitellius, who were
distracted by yet more fatal dissensions, springing, not from the suspicions
of the common men, but from the treachery of the generals. Lucilius Bassus,
prefect of the Ravenna fleet, finding that the
troops wavered in purpose, from the fact that many were natives of Dalmatia and Pannonia, provinces
held for Vespasian, had attached them to the Flavianist party. The
night-time was chosen for accomplishing the treason, because then, unknown
to all the rest, the ringleaders alone might assemble at head-quarters.
Bassus, moved by shame, or perhaps by fear, awaited the issue in his house.
The captains of the triremes rushed with a great outcry on the images
TREACHERY AMONG VITELLIANISTS
of Vitellius; a
few, who attempted to resist, were cut down; the great majority, with the
usual love of change, were ready to join Vespasian. Then Bassus came forward
and openly sanctioned the movement. The fleet