1Galba delayed no longer and sided with those urging the more showy course. 1Piso, however, was sent ahead to the camp, as a young man of great name and fresh popularity, and hostile to Titus Vinius, whether because he was, or because those angry with Vinius wished it so; 1and it is easier to believe in hatred. 1Piso had scarcely gone out when there came a rumour, at first vague and uncertain, that Otho had been killed in the camp: soon, as happens with great lies, certain men were asserting that they had been there and seen it, the story finding easy belief among those who rejoiced and those who did not care to inquire.
1Many thought that the rumour had been made up and embellished by Othonians who had already mingled with the crowd and who put about the false good news to lure Galba out.