Hist. 2.13.1Blandiēbātur coeptīs fortūna, possessā per mare et nāvīs maiōre Ītaliae parte penitus ūsque ad initium maritimārum Alpium, quibus temptandīs adgrediendaeque prōvinciae Narbōnēnsī Suedium Clēmentem, Antōnium Novellum, Aemilium Pācēnsem ducēs dederat.Fortune smiled on his undertakings, since by means of the sea and his ships he held the greater part of Italy, right up to the beginning of the Maritime Alps; to attack these and to assault the province of Narbonensis he had appointed Suedius Clemens, Antonius Novellus and Aemilius Pacensis as commanders. Hist. 2.13.1Sed Pācēnsis per licentiam mīlitum vinctus, Antōniō Novellō nūlla auctōritās: Suedius Clēmēns ambitiōsō imperiō regēbat, ut adversus modestiam disciplīnae corruptus, ita proeliōrum avidus.But Pacensis was put in chains through the soldiers' licence, and Antonius Novellus had no authority: Suedius Clemens ruled by courting popularity, as corrupt where the restraint of discipline was concerned as he was eager for battles. Hist. 2.13.1Nōn Ītalia adīrī nec loca sēdēsque patriae vidēbantur: tamquam externa lītora et urbēs hostium ūrere, vāstāre, rapere eō atrōcius quod nihil usquam prōvīsum adversum metūs.It did not seem to be Italy they were approaching, nor the places and homes of their native land: as if on foreign shores and among enemy cities they burned, laid waste and plundered, all the more savagely because nowhere had any precautions been taken against danger.
Hist. 2.13.1Plēnī agrī, apertae domus;The fields were full, the houses open; Hist. 2.13.1occursantēs dominī iūxtā coniugēs et līberōs sēcūritāte pācis et bellī malō circumveniēbantur.the owners, running to meet them with their wives and children, were trapped by the security of peace and the evil of war. Hist. 2.13.1Maritimās tum Alpīs tenēbat prōcūrātor Marius Mātūrus.The Maritime Alps at that time were held by the procurator Marius Maturus. Hist. 2.13.1Is concitā gente (nec dēest iuventūs) arcēre prōvinciae fīnibus Othōniānōs intendit: sed prīmō impetū caesī disiectīque montānī, ut quibus temerē collēctīs, nōn castra, nōn ducem nōscitantibus, neque in victōriā decus esset neque in fugā flāgitium.He roused the people (nor is there any lack of young men) and set about keeping the Othonians from the borders of the province; but at the first onset the mountaineers were cut down and scattered, as men who had been hastily gathered, who knew no camp and no leader, and for whom there was neither glory in victory nor disgrace in flight.