Hist. 1.54.1At in superiōre Germāniā Caecīna, decōrus iuventā, corpore ingēns, animī immodicus, scītō sermōne, ērēctō incessū, studia mīlitum inlexerat.But 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. Hist. 1.54.1Hunc iuvenem Galba, quaestōrem in Baeticā impigrē in partīs suās trānsgressum, legiōnī praeposuit: mox compertum pūblicam pecūniam āvertisse ut pecūlātōrem flāgitārī iussit.This 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. Hist. 1.54.1Caecīna aegrē passus miscēre cūncta et prīvāta vulnera reī pūblicae malīs operīre statuit.Caecina, resenting it, resolved to throw everything into confusion and to cover his private wounds with the evils of the state. Hist. 1.54.1Nec dēerant in exercitū sēmina discordiae, quod et bellō adversus Vindicem ūniversus adfuerat, nec nisi occīsō Nerōne trānslātus in Galbam atque in eō ipsō sacrāmentō vēxillīs īnferiōris Germāniae praeventus erat.Nor 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.
Hist. 1.54.1Et Trēvirī ac Lingonēs, quāsque aliās cīvitātēs atrōcibus ēdictīs aut damnō fīnium Galba perculerat, hībernīs legiōnum propius miscentur: unde sēditiōsa colloquia et inter pāgānōs corruptior mīles;And 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; Hist. 1.54.1et in Verginium favor cuicumque aliī prōfutūrus.and devotion to Verginius, ready to benefit any other man.