Hist. 1.41.1Agēbātur hūc illūc Galba variō turbae flūctuantis impulsū, complētīs undique basilicīs ac templīs, lūgubrī prōspectū.Galba was driven this way and that by the shifting pressure of the surging crowd, the basilicas and temples everywhere packed, a mournful sight. Hist. 1.41.1Neque populī aut plēbis ūlla vōx, sed attonitī vultūs et conversae ad omnia aurēs;No cry came from the people or the populace, but there were stunned faces and ears turned to every sound; Hist. 1.41.1nōn tumultus, nōn quiēs, quāle magnī metūs et magnae īrae silentium est.there was no uproar, no quiet, but the kind of silence that belongs to great fear and great anger. Hist. 1.41.1Othōnī tamen armārī plēbem nūntiābātur;Otho, however, was told that the populace was arming; Hist. 1.41.1īre praecipitīs et occupāre perīcula iubet.he orders his men to go headlong and forestall the dangers. Hist. 1.41.1Igitur mīlitēs Rōmānī, quasi Vologaesum aut Pacorum avītō Arsacidārum soliō dēpulsūrī ac nōn imperātōrem suum inermem et senem trucīdāre pergerent, disiectā plēbe, prōculcātō senātū, trucēs armīs, rapidī equīs forum inrumpunt.So 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.
Hist. 1.41.1Nec illōs Capitōliī aspectus et imminentium templōrum religiō et priōrēs et futūrī prīncipēs terruēre quō minus facerent scelus cuius ultor est quisquis successit.Neither 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.