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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 65 (search)
The
old feud between Lugdunum and Vienna had been kindled afresh by the late war. They had
inflicted many losses on each other so continuously and so savagely that
they could not have been fighting only for Nero or Galba. Galba had made his
displeasure the occasion for diverting into the Imperial treasury the
revenues of Lugdunum, while he had treated Vienna with marked respect. Thence came rivalry and
dislike, and the two states, separated only by a river, were linked together
by perpetual feud. Accordingly the people of Lugdunum began to work on the passions of individual
soldiers, and to goad them into destroying Vienna,
by reminding them, hoVienna,
by reminding them, how that people had besieged their colony, had abetted
the attempts of Vindex, and had recently raised legions for Galba. After
parading these pretexts for quarrel, they pointed out how vast would be the
plunder. From secret encouragement they passed to open entreaty. "Go," they
said, "to avenge us and utterly destroy this home
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 66 (search)
By these and many similar arguments they so wrought upon the
troops, that even the legates and the leaders of the party did not think it
possible to check their fury; but the people of Vienna, aware of their danger, assumed the veils and
chaplets of suppliants, and, as the army approached, clasped the weapons,
knees and feet of the soldiers, and so turned them from their purpose.
Valens also made each soldier a present of 300 sesterces. After that the
antiquity and rank of the colony prevailed, and the intercession of Valens,
who charged them to respect the life and welfare of the inhabitants,
received a favourable hearing. They were however publicly mulcted of their
arms, and furnished the soldiers with all kinds of supplies from their
private means. Report, however, has uniformly asserted, that Valens himself
was bought with a vast sum. Poor for many years and suddenly growing rich,
he could but ill conceal the change in his fortunes, indulging without
moderation the app
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 77 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 29 (search)
In the midst of these fierce exclamations, Valens, sending his
lictors into the crowd, attempted to quell the mutiny. On this they attacked
the general himself, hurled stones at him, and, when he fled, pursued him.
Crying out that he was concealing the spoil of Gaul,
the gold of the men of Vienna, the hire of their own
toils, they ransacked his baggage, and probed with javelins and lances the
walls of the general's tent and the very ground beneath. Valens, disguised
in the garb of a slave, found concealment with a subaltern officer of
cavalry. After this, Alfenius Varus, prefect of the camp, seeing that the
mutiny was gradually subsiding, promoted the reaction by the following
device. He forbade the centurions to visit the sentinels, and discontinued
the trumpet calls by which the troops are summoned to their usual military
duties. Thereupon all stood paralysed, and gazed at each other in amazement,
panic-stricken by the very fact that there was no one to direct them. By
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 66 (search)
He perished with his brother and son,
Lucius and Germanicus, the brother and son of Vitellius, were slain near Terracina; the former was marching to his brother's relief.
in the
fifty-seventh year of his age,A.U.C. 822 and verified the prediction of those who, from the omen which happened to him at Vienne, as before related,C. ix foretold that he would be made prisoner by some man of Gaul.
For he was seized by Antoninus Primus, a general of the adverse party, who was born at Toulouse, and, when a boy, had the cognomon of Becco,Becco, from whence the French bee, and English beak; with, probably, the family names of Bec or Bek.
This distinguished provincial, under his Latin name of Antoninus Primus, commanded the seventh legion in Gaul.
His character is well drawn by Tacitus, in his usual terse style, Hist.
XI. 86. 2.
which signifies a cock's beak.
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XX (search)
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Advertisement (search)