1Nevertheless he summoned auxiliaries from Germany, Britain and the Spanish provinces, sluggishly and concealing the need. 1The legates and provinces delayed in like manner, Hordeonius Flaccus anxious about a war of his own, as the Batavians were already suspected, Vettius Bolanus because Britain was never quiet enough, and both of them wavering. 1Nor was there any haste from the Spanish provinces, as there was no consular there at that time: the legates of the three legions, equal in authority and ready to vie in obedience while Vitellius prospered, were all alike in shrinking from his adverse fortune. 1In Africa the legion and cohorts raised by Clodius Macer, then disbanded by Galba, took up service again at Vitellius' command; 1at the same time the rest of the young men were eagerly giving their names for enlistment.
1For Vitellius had held an upright and popular proconsulship there, Vespasian a notorious and hated one: accordingly the allies conjectured from this how each would rule, but experience proved the opposite.