Hist. 1.82.1Parvō interim initiō, unde nihil timēbātur, orta sēditiō prope urbī excidiō fuit.Meanwhile, from a small beginning, from which nothing was feared, a mutiny arose that almost brought the city to destruction. Hist. 1.82.1Septimam decimam cohortem ē colōniā Ōstiēnsī in urbem accīrī Othō iusserat;Otho had ordered the Seventeenth cohort to be summoned from the colony of Ostia to the city; Hist. 1.82.1armandae eius cūra Variō Crispīnō tribūnō ē praetōriānīs data.the task of arming it was given to Varius Crispinus, a tribune of the praetorians. Hist. 1.82.1Is quō magis vacuus quiētīs castrīs iussa exequerētur, vehicula cohortis incipiente nocte onerārī apertō armāmentāriō iubet.He, so as to carry out his orders unhindered while the camp was quiet, orders the armoury to be opened and the cohort's wagons to be loaded as night was coming on. Hist. 1.82.1Tempus in suspīciōnem, causa in crīmen, adfectātiō quiētis in tumultum ēvaluit, et vīsa inter tēmulentōs arma cupīdinem suī movēre.The hour grew into suspicion, the motive into a charge, the desire for quiet into an uproar, and the sight of weapons among drunken men stirred a craving for them.
Hist. 1.82.1Fremit mīles et tribūnōs centuriōnēsque prōditiōnis arguit, tamquam familiae senātōrum ad perniciem Othōnis armārentur, pars ignārī et vīnō gravēs, pessimus quisque in occāsiōnem praedārum, vulgus, ut mōs est, cuiuscumque mōtūs novī cupidum;The soldiers grumble and accuse the tribunes and centurions of treachery, as though the households of senators were being armed for Otho's destruction, some ignorant and heavy with wine, all the worst eager for a chance of plunder, the mass, as usual, eager for any new disturbance; Hist. 1.82.1et obsequia meliōrum nox abstulerat.and night had removed the obedience of the better men. Hist. 1.82.1Resistentem sēditiōnī tribūnum et sevērissimōs centuriōnum obtruncant;The tribune who resisted the mutiny and the strictest of the centurions they cut down; Hist. 1.82.1Rapta arma, nūdātī gladiī;weapons were seized, swords drawn; Hist. 1.82.1īnsidentēs equīs urbem ac Palātium petunt.mounted on horses, they make for the city and the Palatine.