Histories 1.63

1With the British army added, Vitellius, immensely strong in forces and resources, appointed two generals and two routes for the war: Fabius Valens was ordered to win over the Gauls or, if they refused, to lay them waste, and to burst into Italy over the Cottian Alps; Caecina to descend by the nearer crossing over the Pennine heights. 1To Valens were given picked troops of the lower army with the eagle of the Fifth Legion and cohorts and cavalry squadrons, about forty thousand armed men; 1Caecina was leading thirty thousand from Upper Germany, of whom the core was the Twenty-first Legion. 1To each were added German auxiliaries, from whom Vitellius also filled up his own forces, intending to follow with the whole weight of the war.