1Then the Othonian infantry burst forth; 1the enemy line was trampled down, and even those who were coming to its aid were put to flight; 1for Caecina had summoned his cohorts not all together but one by one, which increased the panic in the battle, since the terror of those fleeing swept away men who were scattered and nowhere strong. 1A mutiny broke out in the camp too, because they were not all led out together: the camp prefect Julius Gratus was put in chains, on the charge that he was plotting treachery with his brother, who was serving with Otho, while the Othonians had put his brother, the tribune Julius Fronto, in chains on the same charge.
1However, such was the terror everywhere, among those fleeing and those coming up to meet them, in the line and before the rampart, that the report spread widely on both sides that Caecina could have been destroyed with his entire army, had not Suetonius Paulinus sounded the retreat. 1Paulinus said that he had feared so much additional toil and marching, lest the Vitellian soldiers, fresh from the camp, should attack his tired men, and there should be no support behind them if they were routed. 1Among a few this reasoning of the general was approved; among the rank and file it met with hostile talk.