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Tacitus · Historiae II

Histories 2.16

A second clash, then withdrawal

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1Nor did the Vitellians, though beaten, stay quiet: summoning reinforcements, they attack the enemy, who were off their guard and acting more carelessly because of their success. 1The sentries were cut down, the camp broken into, there was panic at the ships, until, as the fear gradually subsided, the Othonians seized a nearby hill and defended themselves, and soon burst out to attack. 1There was terrible slaughter there, and the prefects of the Tungrian cohorts, after holding their line for a long time, were overwhelmed by missiles. 1Nor was the victory bloodless even for the Othonians, for the cavalry wheeled round and surrounded those who had pursued incautiously. 1And, as if a truce had been agreed, so that the fleet on one side and the cavalry on the other should not cause sudden alarm, the Vitellians went back to Antipolis, a town of Narbonese Gaul, and the Othonians to Albingaunum in inner Liguria.

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Tacitus, Historiae II. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.