Hist. 1.56.1Īnferiōris tamen Germāniae legiōnēs sollemnī kalendārum Iānuāriārum sacrāmentō prō Galbā adāctae, multā cūnctātiōne et rārīs prīmōrum ōrdinum vōcibus, cēterī silentiō proximī cuiusque audāciam expectantēs, īnsitā mortālibus nātūra, properē sequī quae piget inchoāre.Nevertheless the legions of Lower Germany were sworn in for Galba with the customary oath on the first of January, with much hesitation and few voices from the senior centurions, the rest in silence, each waiting for the boldness of his neighbour, by that nature inborn in mortals to follow quickly what they are reluctant to begin. Hist. 1.56.1Sed ipsīs legiōnibus īnerat dīversitās animōrum: prīmānī quīntānīque turbidī adeō ut quīdam saxa in Galbae imāginēs iēcerint: quīnta decima ac sexta decima legiōnēs nihil ultrā fremitum et minās ausae initium ērumpendī circumspectābant.But within the legions themselves there was a difference of feeling: the men of the First and Fifth were so unruly that some threw stones at Galba's images: the Fifteenth and Sixteenth legions, daring nothing beyond murmurs and threats, were looking round for the start of an outbreak. Hist. 1.56.1At in superiōre exercitū quarta ac duetvīcēnsima legiōnēs, īsdem hībernīs tendentēs, ipsō kalendārum Iānuāriārum diē dīrumpunt imāginēs Galbae, quarta legiō promptius, duetvīcēnsima cūnctanter, mox cōnsēnsū.But in the upper army the Fourth and Twenty-second legions, quartered in the same winter camp, on the very day of the first of January smash Galba's images, the Fourth more readily, the Twenty-second hesitantly, then in agreement.
Hist. 1.56.1Ac nē reverentiam imperiī exuere vidērentur, senātūs populīque Rōmānī oblitterāta iam nōmina sacrāmentō advocābant, nūllō lēgātōrum tribūnōrumve prō Galbā nītente, quibusdam, ut in tumultū, notābilius turbantibus.And so as not to seem to cast off reverence for the empire, they invoked in their oath the now obsolete names of the senate and the Roman people, while none of the legates or tribunes made any effort for Galba, and some, as happens in an uproar, made trouble more conspicuously. Hist. 1.56.1Nōn tamen quisquam in modum contiōnis aut suggestū locūtus;Yet no one spoke in the manner of a public address or from the tribunal; Hist. 1.56.1neque enim erat adhūc cui imputārētur.for there was as yet no one to whom it could be credited.