Hist. 1.20.1Proxima pecūniae cūra;The next concern was money; Hist. 1.20.1et cūncta scrūtantibus iūstissimum vīsum est inde repetī ubi inopiae causa erat.and as they searched everywhere, it seemed most just to recover it from the place where the cause of the shortage lay. Hist. 1.20.1Bis et vīciēns mīliēns sēstertium dōnātiōnibus Nerō effūderat: appellārī singulōs iussit, decimā parte līberālitātis apud quemque eōrum relictā.Nero had poured out two thousand two hundred million sesterces in gifts: Galba ordered each recipient to be summoned, a tenth part of the gift being left with each of them. Hist. 1.20.1At illīs vix decimae super portiōnēs erant, īsdem ergā aliēna sūmptibus quibus sua prōdēgerant, cum rapācissimō cuique ac perditissimō nōn agrī aut faenus sed sōla īnstrūmenta vitiōrum manērent.But they barely had a tenth part left, having squandered others' money with the same extravagance as their own, since the most rapacious and dissolute of them had no lands or capital left but only the instruments of their vices. Hist. 1.20.1Exāctiōnī trīgintā equitēs Rōmānī praepositī, novum officiī genus et ambitū ac numerō onerōsum: ubīque hasta et sector, et inquiēta urbs āctiōnibus.Thirty Roman knights were put in charge of the collection, a new kind of office and burdensome through its intrigue and numbers: everywhere the auction spear and the purchaser, and the city restless with lawsuits.
Hist. 1.20.1Ac tamen grande gaudium quod tam pauperēs forent quibus dōnāsset Nerō quam quibus abstulisset.And yet there was great rejoicing that those to whom Nero had given were as poor as those from whom he had taken. Hist. 1.20.1Exauctōrātī per eōs diēs tribūnī, ē praetōriō Antōnius Taurus et Antōnius Nāsō, ex urbānīs cohortibus Aemilius Pācēnsis, ē vigilibus Iūlius Frontō.In those days tribunes were dismissed: from the praetorian guard Antonius Taurus and Antonius Naso, from the urban cohorts Aemilius Pacensis, from the watch Julius Fronto. Hist. 1.20.1Nec remedium in cēterōs fuit, sed metus initium, tamquam per artem et formīdine singulī pellerentur, omnibus suspectīs.This was no remedy for the rest, but the beginning of fear, as though they were being driven out one by one through cunning and intimidation, since all were suspected.