Hist. 1.50.1Galbae corpus diū neglēctum et licentiā tenebrārum plūrimīs lūdibriīs vexātum dispēnsātor Argius ē priōribus servīs humilī sepultūrā in prīvātīs eius hortīs contēxit.Galba's body, long neglected and abused with many outrages under the licence of darkness, was buried by Argius, his steward, one of his former slaves, in a humble grave in his private gardens. Hist. 1.50.1Caput per lixās cālōnēsque suffīxum lacerātumque ante Patrobiī tumulum (lībertus in Nerōnis pūnītus ā Galbā fuerat) posterā dēmum diē repertum et cremātō iam corporī admixtum est.His head, fixed on a pole and mangled by sutlers and camp servants before the tomb of Patrobius (a freedman of Nero who had been punished by Galba), was found only on the following day and joined to the body, already cremated. Hist. 1.50.1Hunc exitum habuit Servius Galba, tribus et septuāgintā annīs quīnque prīncipēs prosperā fortūnā ēmēnsus et aliēnō imperiō fēlīcior quam suō.Such was the end of Servius Galba, who in seventy-three years had lived through the reigns of five emperors with good fortune, and was happier under another's rule than his own. Hist. 1.50.1Vetus in familiā nōbilitās, magnae opēs: ipsī medium ingenium, magis extrā vitia quam cum virtūtibus.His family had ancient nobility and great wealth; he himself had a middling character, free of vices rather than endowed with virtues.
Hist. 1.50.1Fāmae nec incūriōsus nec venditātor;He was neither careless of reputation nor one to advertise himself; Hist. 1.50.1pecūniae aliēnae nōn adpetēns, suae parcus, pūblicae avārus;not covetous of other men's money, sparing of his own, miserly with the state's; Hist. 1.50.1amīcōrum lībertōrumque, ubi in bonōs incidisset, sine reprehēnsiōne patiēns, sī malī forent, ūsque ad culpam ignārus.towards his friends and freedmen, when he chanced upon good ones, indulgent beyond reproach; if they were bad, blind to the point of fault. Hist. 1.50.1Sed clāritās nātālium et metus temporum obtentuī, ut, quod segnitia erat, sapientia vocārētur.But the distinction of his birth and the fear of the times served as a cloak, so that what was sloth was called wisdom. Hist. 1.50.1Dum vigēbat aetās mīlitārī laude apud Germāniās flōruit.While in the prime of life he was renowned for military distinction in the Germanies. Hist. 1.50.1Prō cōnsule Āfricam moderātē, iam senior citeriōrem Hispāniam parī iūstitiā continuit, maior prīvātō vīsus dum prīvātus fuit, et omnium cōnsēnsū capāx imperiī nisi imperāsset.As proconsul he governed Africa with moderation, and, when already older, Nearer Spain with equal justice, seeming greater than a private citizen while he was one, and by universal consent capable of ruling, had he not ruled.