Histories 2.39

1The fight, indeed, was broken off by flight, the boats that were left having been cut loose: Macer was called for, to be put to death, and they had already wounded him with a lance thrown from a distance and set upon him with drawn swords, when he was saved by the intervention of the tribunes and centurions. 1Not long afterwards Vestricius Spurinna, on Otho's orders, leaving a small garrison at Placentia, came to help with his cohorts. 1Then Otho sent Flavius Sabinus, consul-designate, to command the forces Macer had commanded, the soldiers being glad at the change of generals, and the generals spurning a service made so hostile by frequent mutinies.