1But in Upper Germany Caecina, handsome and youthful, huge in body, immoderate in spirit, clever in speech, upright in bearing, had won over the soldiers' devotion. 1This young man, who as quaestor in Baetica had actively gone over to his side, Galba put in command of a legion: then, when it was discovered that he had embezzled public money, he ordered him to be prosecuted as a peculator. 1Caecina, resenting it, resolved to throw everything into confusion and to cover his private wounds with the evils of the state. 1Nor were seeds of discord lacking in the army, because it had been present in full force in the war against Vindex and had not gone over to Galba until Nero was killed, and even in that very oath it had been forestalled by the detachments of Lower Germany.
1And the Treviri and Lingones, and the other states which Galba had struck with harsh edicts or loss of territory, mingle more closely with the legions' winter quarters: hence seditious talk, and the soldiers more corrupt among the civilians; 1and devotion to Verginius, ready to benefit any other man.