1At his funeral the soldiers' mutiny was renewed by their grief and distress, and there was no one to restrain it. 1Turning to Verginius, they begged him with threats, now to take up the imperial power, now to act as envoy to Caecina and Valens: Verginius slipped away secretly by the back of the house and eluded them as they burst in. 1Rubrius Gallus carried the petition of the cohorts that had been stationed at Brixellum, and pardon was granted at once, while the forces which Flavius Sabinus had commanded went over to the victor through him.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.54
Verginius and the mutinous soldiers
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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.