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Historiae by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book III Chapter 14: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus. Caecina arrested[AD 69]
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Joining one and all in these cries, by which each expressed his own vexation, they proceeded, following the lead of the fifth legion, to replace the images of Vitellius, and to put Caecina in irons. They elected to the command Fabius Fabullus, legate of the fifth legion, and Cassius Longus, prefect of the camp; they massacred the soldiers from three Liburnian ships, who happened to fall in their way, but who were perfectly ignorant and innocent of these proceedings; they then abandoned the camp, and, after breaking down the bridge, fell back on Hostilia, and thence on Cremona, in order to effect a junction with the two legions, the 1st Italica and the 21st Rapax, which, with a portion of the cavalry,Caecina had sent on to occupy Cremona.

Event: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus