1This loss did not so much drive the Vitellians to fear as bring them to discipline: and not only with Caecina, who laid the blame on his soldiers as readier for mutiny than for battle; the forces of Fabius Valens too (for he had now reached Ticinum), having put aside their contempt for the enemy and in their desire to recover their honour, obeyed their general more respectfully and more evenly. 1Besides this, a serious mutiny had flared up, which I shall relate going back to an earlier point (for it was not right to interrupt the sequence of Caecina's operations). 1The Batavian cohorts, which, as we have related, had separated from the Fourteenth Legion during Nero's war, and while making for Britain, on hearing of Vitellius' rising, had joined Fabius Valens in the state of the Lingones, were behaving arrogantly: whenever they came to the tents of any legion, they boasted that the men of the Fourteenth had been held in check by them, that Italy had been taken from Nero, and that the whole fortune of the war lay in their own hands.
1This was insulting to the soldiers and galling to the general; 1discipline was corrupted by quarrels or brawls; 1in the end Valens began to suspect treachery too from their insolence.