1In those same days Martius Macer fought successfully not far from Cremona; 1for Martius, a man of ready spirit, ferried the gladiators across in boats and suddenly poured them out onto the opposite bank of the Po. 1There the Vitellian auxiliaries were thrown into confusion, and while the rest fled to Cremona those who had stood their ground were cut down; but the victors' onset was checked, lest the enemy, strengthened by fresh reinforcements, should change the fortune of the battle. 1This aroused suspicion among the Othonians, who put a bad construction on everything their generals did. 1Vying with one another, each the more eagerly the more cowardly he was in spirit and insolent in speech, they assailed Annius Gallus, Suetonius Paulinus and Marius Celsus (for Otho had given these men commands too) with various charges.
1The fiercest incitements to mutiny and discord were Galba's murderers, who, frantic with guilt and fear, threw everything into confusion, now openly with riotous cries, now by secret letters to Otho; 1and he, credulous towards all the lowest men and fearing the good, was in a state of alarm, irresolute in prosperity and better in adversity. 1So he summoned his brother Titianus and put him in charge of the war.