Histories 1.24

1To the soldiers' minds, already ablaze, Maevius Pudens, one of Tigellinus' intimates, had added torches, as it were. 1By enticing all those most unstable in temperament or in need of money and headlong in pursuit of new desires, he gradually went so far that, under cover of a dinner, whenever Galba dined with Otho, he distributed a hundred sesterces a man to the cohort on guard duty; 1this largesse, a public one as it were, Otho heightened with more secret rewards to individuals, so bold a corrupter that when Cocceius Proculus, one of the bodyguard, was disputing part of a boundary with his neighbour, he bought the neighbour's whole estate with his own money and gave it to him as a gift, thanks to the indolence of the prefect, who missed what was well known and what was hidden alike.