1Hordeonius Flaccus, the consular legate, was there as a spectator of the outrage, not daring to restrain those rushing headlong, to hold back the wavering, or to encourage the good, but sluggish, fearful, and innocent through indolence. 1Four centurions of the Twenty-second Legion, Nonius Receptus, Donatius Valens, Romilius Marcellus and Calpurnius Repentinus, when they tried to protect Galba's images, were swept away by the soldiers' onrush and put in chains. 1Nor did anyone any longer keep faith with or remember the former oath, but, as happens in mutinies, where the majority was, there all were.
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Tacitus · Historiae I
Histories 1.57
Flaccus fails to act
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Tacitus, Historiae I. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.