1So, with men's feelings changed, Asinius Pollio, prefect of a cavalry squadron and one of the most loyal to Albinus, and Festus and Scipio, prefects of cohorts, were overpowered: Albinus himself, while making for Mauretania Caesariensis from the province of Tingitana, was butchered as he landed on the shore; 1his wife, when she had offered herself to the assassins, was killed with him, while Vitellius made no inquiry into anything that was happening: he passed over matters however great after a brief hearing, unequal to weightier concerns.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.62
The fall of Albinus
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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.