1The bodyguards having slipped away, the rest of the cohort, not spurning the speaker, seize their standards, as happens in confusion, by chance rather and with no plan as yet, than, as was later believed, through treachery and pretence. 1Marius Celsus too was sent to the picked men of the Illyrian army, who were encamped in the Portico of Vipsania; 1orders were given to Amullius Serenus and Domitius Sabinus, senior centurions, to fetch the German soldiers from the Hall of Liberty. 1The marine legion was distrusted, being hostile because of the slaughter of their comrades, whom Galba had butchered immediately upon his first entry. 1The tribunes Cetrius Severus, Subrius Dexter and Pompeius Longinus even go to the praetorian camp, in case the mutiny, still beginning and not yet full-grown, might be turned by better counsel.
1Of the tribunes, Subrius and Cetrius the soldiers set upon with threats, Longinus they restrain by force and disarm, because he owed his place not to his military rank but to being one of Galba's friends, and being loyal to his emperor was all the more suspect to the rebels. 1The marine legion, without hesitation, joins the praetorians; 1the picked men of the Illyrian army drive Celsus off with levelled javelins. 1The German detachments wavered for a long time, their bodies still weak and their minds conciliated, because, after Nero had sent them ahead to Alexandria and they had come back from there sick after a long voyage, Galba was nursing them with particularly generous care.