1The recent war had inflamed the old quarrel between the people of Lugdunum and the people of Vienna. 1Many were the defeats on each side, inflicted more often and more savagely than if the fighting had been only for Nero and Galba. 1And Galba, seizing the chance his anger gave him, had turned the revenues of Lugdunum over to the treasury; 1on the Viennenses, by contrast, he had heaped many honours: hence rivalry and envy, and a hatred that bound together peoples separated by a single river. 1So the people of Lugdunum began to goad the soldiers one by one and urge them on to the destruction of Vienna, recalling that the Viennenses had besieged their colony, had aided the attempts of Vindex, and had lately enrolled legions to defend Galba.
1And when they had set out the reasons for their hatred, they pointed to the size of the plunder; and it was no longer secret encouragement but public entreaty: let them go as avengers, let them root out the seat of the Gallic war: everything there was foreign and hostile: they themselves were a Roman colony and part of the army, partners in good fortune and bad; if fortune went against them, let the soldiers not abandon them to angry foes.