1Now that the forces of Caecina and Valens were united, the Vitellians no longer delayed fighting with their whole strength: Otho consulted whether it was better to drag out the war or to try fortune.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.34
Otho weighs his strategy
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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.