Hist. 1.86.1"Vōs quidem istud prō mē: sed in discursū ac tenebrīs et rērum omnium cōnfūsiōne patefierī occāsiō etiam adversus mē potest.'You did that, it is true, for my sake: but in running about and darkness and the confusion of everything, an opening may be given even against me. Hist. 1.86.1Sī Vitelliō et satellitibus eius ēligendī facultās dētur, quem nōbīs animum, quās mentīs imprecentur, quid aliud quam sēditiōnem et discordiam optābunt?If Vitellius and his henchmen were given their choice, what temper, what minds would they pray for in us, what else would they wish for but mutiny and discord? Hist. 1.86.1Nē mīles centuriōnī, nē centuriō tribūnō obsequātur, ut cōnfūsī peditēs equitēsque in exitium ruāmus.That soldier should not obey centurion, nor centurion tribune, so that, infantry and cavalry thrown together, we should rush to our ruin. Hist. 1.86.1Pārendō potius, commīlitōnēs, quam imperia ducum scīscitandō rēs mīlitārēs continentur, et fortissimus in ipsō discrīmine exercitus est quī ante discrīmen quiētissimus.It is by obeying, comrades, rather than by questioning the commands of generals, that military affairs hold together, and that army is bravest in the moment of crisis which is quietest before the crisis.
Hist. 1.86.1Vōbīs arma et animus sit: mihi cōnsilium et virtūtis vestrae regimen relinquite.Yours be the arms and the courage: leave to me the planning and the direction of your valour. Hist. 1.86.1Paucōrum culpa fuit, duōrum poena erit: cēterī abolēte memoriam foedissimae noctis.The fault was that of a few, the punishment will fall on two: the rest of you, blot out the memory of that most shameful night. Hist. 1.86.1Nec illās adversus senātum vōcēs ūllus usquam exercitus audiat.And may no army anywhere hear such cries against the senate again. Hist. 1.86.1Caput imperiī et decora omnium prōvinciārum ad poenam vocāre nōn herculē illī, quōs cum maximē Vitellius in nōs ciet, Germānī audeant.To call the head of the empire and the glory of all the provinces to punishment: by Hercules, not even those Germans whom Vitellius at this very moment is stirring up against us would dare it. Hist. 1.86.1Ullīne Ītaliae alumnī et Rōmāna vērē iuventūs ad sanguinem et caedem dēpoposcerit ōrdinem, cuius splendōre et glōriā sordīs et obscūritātem Vitelliānārum partium praestringimus?Would any sons of Italy, any truly Roman youth, demand for blood and slaughter that order by whose splendour and glory we outshine the squalor and obscurity of the Vitellian party?
Hist. 1.86.1Nātiōnēs aliquās occupāvit Vitellius, imāginem quandam exercitūs habet, senātus nōbīscum est: sīc fit ut hinc rēs pūblica, inde hostēs reī pūblicae cōnstiterint.Vitellius has seized some nations, he has some semblance of an army, but the senate is with us: so it comes about that here stands the state, there the enemies of the state. Hist. 1.86.1Quid?What? Hist. 1.86.1Vōs pulcherrimam hanc urbem domibus et tēctīs et congestū lapidum stāre crēditis?Do you believe that this most beautiful city stands by its houses and buildings and heaps of stone? Hist. 1.86.1Mūta ista et inanima intercīdere ac reparārī prōmisca sunt: aeternitās rērum et pāx gentium et mea cum vestrā salūs incolumitāte senātūs firmātur.Those dumb and lifeless things may perish and be rebuilt without distinction: the permanence of our affairs, the peace of the nations, and my safety along with yours are secured by the preservation of the senate. Hist. 1.86.1Hunc auspicātō ā parente et conditōre urbis nostrae īnstitūtum et ā rēgibus ūsque ad prīncipēs continuum et immortālem, sīcut ā maiōribus accēpimus, sīc posterīs trādāmus;This body, founded under auspices by the father and founder of our city, and unbroken and immortal from the kings to the emperors, let us hand on to our descendants just as we received it from our ancestors; Hist. 1.86.1nam ut ex vōbīs senātōrēs, ita ex senātōribus prīncipēs nāscuntur."for as senators come from you, so emperors come from senators.'