1Galba was driven this way and that by the shifting pressure of the surging crowd, the basilicas and temples everywhere packed, a mournful sight. 1No cry came from the people or the populace, but there were stunned faces and ears turned to every sound; 1there was no uproar, no quiet, but the kind of silence that belongs to great fear and great anger. 1Otho, however, was told that the populace was arming; 1he orders his men to go headlong and forestall the dangers. 1So Roman soldiers, as though they were about to drive Vologaeses or Pacorus from the ancestral throne of the Arsacids, and were not hurrying to butcher their own emperor, unarmed and old, scattered the populace, trampled the senate underfoot, and, fierce with their weapons, swift on their horses, burst into the forum.
1Neither the sight of the Capitol nor the sanctity of the temples above them nor emperors past and future deterred them from committing a crime which whoever succeeds to the throne avenges.