1Meanwhile Galba was torn between two opinions. Titus Vinius held that they should remain inside the palace, set the slaves against the attackers, secure the entrances, and not go out to men in their anger: he should give the wrongdoers time to repent and the loyal time to unite: crimes gained strength from haste, good counsels from delay; and finally, the chance of going out of their own accord would be just as available later, if there were reason for it, while a return, if they regretted going, would lie in others' power.
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Tacitus · Historiae I
Histories 1.33
Vinius urges Galba to stay put
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Tacitus, Historiae I. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.