1Then in the senate Galba's speech was no more polished and no longer than it had been before the soldiers: Piso's address was gracious. 1And the senators' support was there: many gave it willingly, those who had not wanted it more effusively, the neutral and the majority with ready compliance, turning over private hopes without concern for the public good. 1Nor did Piso say or do anything else in public in the following four days, which were the interval between the adoption and the murder. 1As reports of the German revolt grew more frequent day by day, and the citizens were ready to accept and believe all news when it is bad, the senators had decided that envoys should be sent to the German army.
1It was debated in secret whether Piso too should go, for greater show, they bringing the authority of the senate, he the dignity of a Caesar. 1It was proposed that Laco, the praetorian prefect, be sent at the same time: he blocked the plan. 1The envoys too (for the senate had left the choice to Galba) were, with shameful inconstancy, named, excused and replaced, through intrigue to stay or to go, as fear or hope had driven each man.