Hist. 1.26.1Īnfēcit ea tābēs legiōnum quoque et auxiliōrum mōtās iam mentīs, postquam vulgātum erat labāre Germānicī exercitūs fidem.This infection also tainted the minds of the legions and auxiliaries, already unsettled, once it had been spread about that the loyalty of the German army was wavering. Hist. 1.26.1Adeōque parāta apud malōs sēditiō, etiam apud integrōs dissimulātiō fuit, ut posterō īduum diē redeuntem ā cēnā Othōnem raptūrī fuerint, nī incerta noctis et tōtā urbe sparsa mīlitum castra nec facilem inter tēmulentōs cōnsēnsum timuissent, nōn reī pūblicae cūra, quam foedāre prīncipis suī sanguine sōbriī parābant, sed nē per tenebrās, ut quisque Pannonicī vel Germānicī exercitūs mīlitibus oblātus esset, ignōrantibus plērīsque, prō Othōne dēstinārētur.And the mutiny was so ready among the bad, and connivance even among the honest, that on the day after the Ides they would have seized Otho as he returned from dinner, had they not feared the uncertainties of night, the soldiers' quarters scattered throughout the city, and the difficulty of agreement among drunken men; not from concern for the state, which they were preparing, when sober, to defile with the blood of their emperor, but lest in the darkness whoever happened to be presented to the soldiers of the Pannonian or German army should be proclaimed in place of Otho, since most did not know him.
Hist. 1.26.1Multa ērumpentis sēditiōnis indicia per cōnsciōs oppressa: quaedam apud Galbae aurīs praefectus Lacō ēlūsit, ignārus mīlitārium animōrum cōnsiliīque quamvīs ēgregiī, quod nōn ipse adferret, inimīcus et adversus perītōs pervicāx.Many signs of the mutiny that was breaking out were suppressed by those in the plot: some of them the prefect Laco made light of before Galba's ears, ignorant as he was of the soldiers' temper, hostile to any advice, however excellent, which he had not offered himself, and obstinate against those with experience.