1Spurinna, having learned the enemy's route, informs Annius Gallus by letter that Placentia had been defended, and what had been done and what Caecina was preparing. 1Gallus was leading the First Legion to the help of Placentia, distrusting the small number of the cohorts, in case they should not withstand a longer siege and the force of the German army. 1When he learned that Caecina had been repulsed and was making for Cremona, he halted at Bedriacum the legion, which had been restrained with difficulty and in its ardour for battle had gone as far as mutiny. 1Bedriacum is a village situated between Verona and Cremona, now notorious and ill-starred because of two Roman disasters.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.24
Gallus halts at Bedriacum
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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.