Histories 2.14

1Provoked by that battle, Otho's soldiers turned their anger on the town of Albintimilium. 1For in the battle there had been no plunder: the peasants were poor and their arms worthless; 1nor could they be captured, being a swift race who knew the country: but the soldiers' greed was sated by the misfortunes of the innocent. 1A Ligurian woman increased the odium by a glorious example: she had hidden her son, and when the soldiers believed that she was hiding money as well, and therefore asked her under torture where she was concealing her son, she pointed to her womb and replied that he lay there, and afterwards by no threats, nor even by death, did she change the constancy of her noble words.