Hist. 2.60.1Interim Vitellius victōriae suae nescius ut ad integrum bellum reliquās Germānicī exercitūs vīrīs trahēbat.Meanwhile Vitellius, unaware of his victory, was bringing up the remaining forces of the German army as if for a war still undecided. Hist. 2.60.1Paucī veterum mīlitum in hībernīs relictī, festīnātīs per Galliās dīlēctibus, ut remanentium legiōnum nōmina supplērentur.A few veteran soldiers were left in the winter quarters, and levies were hurried through the Gallic provinces, so that the names of the legions left behind might be filled up. Hist. 2.60.1Cūra rīpae Hordeōniō Flaccō permissa;The guarding of the Rhine bank was entrusted to Hordeonius Flaccus; Hist. 2.60.1ipse ē Britannicō exercitū dēlēcta octō mīlia sibi adiūnxit.he himself added to his own forces eight thousand picked men from the army in Britain. Hist. 2.60.1Et paucōrum diērum iter prōgressus prosperās apud Bedriacum rēs ac morte Othōnis concīdisse bellum accēpit: vocātā contiōne virtūtem mīlitum laudibus cumulat.And when he had advanced a few days' march, he learned of the success at Bedriacum and that the war had collapsed with Otho's death: calling an assembly, he heaped praise on the courage of the soldiers.
Hist. 2.60.1Postulante exercitū ut lībertum suum Asiāticum equestrī dignitāte dōnāret, inhonestam adūlātiōnem conpescit;When the army demanded that he present his freedman Asiaticus with the rank of knight, he checked the shameful flattery; Hist. 2.60.1Dein mōbilitāte ingeniī, quod palam abnuerat, inter sēcrēta convīviī largītur, honōrāvitque Asiāticum ānulīs, foedum mancipium et malīs artibus ambitiōsum.then, through the fickleness of his character, what he had refused in public he granted in the privacy of a banquet, and honoured Asiaticus with the gold rings, a foul slave who sought advancement by wicked arts.