Histories 2.43

1Setting out as if not for a battle but for a campaign, they were making for the confluence of the Po and the Arda, sixteen miles away from there. 1Though Celsus and Paulinus refused to expose soldiers tired from the march and weighed down with baggage to an enemy who, unencumbered and having advanced barely four miles, would not fail to attack them either in disorder on the march or scattered and labouring on the rampart, Titianus and Proculus, whenever they were beaten in argument, resorted to their right of command. 1A Numidian, it is true, arrived at a gallop with harsh orders, in which Otho, rebuking the generals' sluggishness, commanded them to put the matter to the test, sick as he was of delay and impatient of suspense.