Histories 1.43

1Next they attacked Titus Vinius, about whom too it is disputed whether the immediate fear choked his voice, or whether he cried out that Otho had given no order for him to be killed. 1Whether he invented this from fear or confessed his share in the conspiracy, his life and reputation incline rather to this, that he was privy to the crime of which he was the cause. 1He fell before the temple of the deified Julius, at the first blow struck on the back of the knee, and was then run through both sides by Julius Carus, a legionary soldier.