1A notable quarrel took place, in which Licinius Caecina attacked Eprius Marcellus for speaking ambiguously. 1Nor did the rest declare their opinions: but the name of Marcellus, hated for the memory of his prosecutions and exposed to ill will, had provoked Caecina, so that he, still a new man and lately admitted to the senate, might win distinction through great enmities. 1They were parted by the moderation of the better men. 1And they all went back to Bononia, to deliberate again; 1at the same time more news was hoped for in the meantime. 1At Bononia, where men had been posted along the roads to question each latest arrival, a freedman of Otho's, asked the reason for his departure, replied that he had Otho's last instructions; 1he had left him still alive indeed, but caring only for posterity and having broken off life's allurements.
1Hence came admiration and shame to ask more questions, and the minds of all inclined towards Vitellius.