Histories 1.63

Hist. 1.63.1Adiūnctō Britannicō exercitū ingēns vīribus opibusque Vitellius duōs ducēs, duo itinera bellō dēstināvit: Fabius Valēns adlicere vel, sī abnuerent, vāstāre Galliās et Cottiānīs Alpibus Ītaliam inrumpere, Caecīna propiōre trānsitū Poenīnīs iugīs dēgredī iussus.With 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. Hist. 1.63.1Valentī īnferiōris exercitūs ēlēctī cum aquilā quīntae legiōnis et cohortibus alīsque, ad quadrāgintā mīlia armātōrum data;To 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; Hist. 1.63.1trīgintā mīlia Caecīna ē superiōre Germāniā dūcēbat, quōrum rōbur legiō ūnaetvīcēnsima fuit.Caecina was leading thirty thousand from Upper Germany, of whom the core was the Twenty-first Legion. Hist. 1.63.1Addita utrīque Germānōrum auxilia, ē quibus Vitellius suās quoque cōpiās supplēvit, tōtā mōle bellī secūtūrus.To each were added German auxiliaries, from whom Vitellius also filled up his own forces, intending to follow with the whole weight of the war.