1But at Rome there was no alarm; 1the games of Ceres were being watched as usual. 1When reliable informants brought word into the theatre that Otho had given up and that all the troops in the city had been sworn to Vitellius by Flavius Sabinus, the prefect of the city, they applauded Vitellius; 1the people carried images of Galba with laurel and flowers around the temples, heaping up garlands in the shape of a mound beside the Lake of Curtius, the place which Galba had stained with his blood as he died. 1In the senate all the honours devised during the long reigns of other emperors were voted at once; 1praise and thanks to the German army were added, and a deputation was sent to convey their joy.
1Letters of Fabius Valens written to the consuls were read out, not immoderate in tone: but the modesty of Caecina was more welcome, in that he had not written.