Hist. 2.100.1Quīn et nātālem Vitelliī diem Caecīna ac Valēns ēditīs tōtā urbe vīcātim gladiātōribus celebrāvēre, ingentī parātū et ante illum diem īnsolitō.Further, Caecina and Valens celebrated Vitellius' birthday by putting on gladiatorial shows throughout the whole city, district by district, with huge preparations unheard of before that day. Hist. 2.100.1Laetum foedissimō cuique apud bonōs invidiae fuit quod extrūctīs in campō Mārtiō ārīs īnferiās Nerōnī fēcisset.It delighted all the most disgraceful, and roused odium among good men, that he had altars set up on the Campus Martius and made offerings to the shade of Nero. Hist. 2.100.1Caesae pūblicē victimae cremātaeque;Victims were slaughtered and burned at public expense; Hist. 2.100.1facem Augustālēs subdidēre, quod sacerdōtium, ut Rōmulus Tatiō rēgī, ita Caesar Tiberius Iūliae gentī sacrāvit.the Augustales lit the fire beneath, a priesthood which Tiberius Caesar dedicated to the Julian family, as Romulus did one to King Tatius. Hist. 2.100.1Nōndum quartus ā victōriā mēnsis, et lībertus Vitelliī Asiāticus Polyclītōs Patrobiōs et vetera odiōrum nōmina aequābat.Not yet was it the fourth month after the victory, and Vitellius' freedman Asiaticus was already rivalling the Polyclituses and Patrobiuses and the old names of hatred.
Hist. 2.100.1Nēmō in illā aulā probitāte aut industriā certāvit: ūnum ad potentiam iter, prōdigīs epulīs et sūmptū gāneāque satiāre inexplēbilīs Vitelliī libīdinēs.No one in that court competed in honesty or industry: there was one road to power, to sate Vitellius' insatiable appetites with prodigal banquets, expense and gluttony. Hist. 2.100.1Ipse abundē ratus sī praesentibus fruerētur, nec in longius cōnsultāns, noviēns mīliēns sēstertium paucissimīs mēnsibus intervertisse crēditur.He himself, thinking it enough if he enjoyed the present, and taking no thought for the future, is believed to have squandered nine hundred million sesterces in a very few months. Hist. 2.100.1Magna et misera cīvitās, eōdem annō Othōnem Vitellium passa, inter Vīniōs Fabiōs Icelōs Asiāticōs variā et pudendā sorte agēbat, dōnec successēre Mūciānus et Marcellus et magis aliī hominēs quam aliī mōrēs.The great and wretched city, having endured Otho and Vitellius in the same year, lived through varied and shameful fortunes among men like Vinius, Fabius, Icelus and Asiaticus, until Mucianus and Marcellus succeeded them, other men rather than other ways.