1Indeed, before the end of each, by which Otho earned an excellent reputation and Vitellius a most disgraceful one, the idle pleasures of Vitellius were less feared than the burning lusts of Otho: Galba's murder had added terror and hatred to the latter, whereas no one blamed the former for the beginning of the war. 1Vitellius, with his belly and gluttony, was thought a disgrace to himself; Otho, with his luxury, cruelty and daring, more ruinous to the state.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.33
How Otho and Vitellius were judged
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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.