1He ordered the army to proceed by the land route: he himself was carried down the river Arar, with no imperial equipage, but conspicuous for his old poverty, until Junius Blaesus, governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, of illustrious family, generous in spirit and with wealth to match, surrounded the emperor with attendants and escorted him liberally, and for that very reason was disliked, though Vitellius veiled his hatred with servile flatteries. 1At Lugdunum the leaders of the victorious and the vanquished parties were there to meet him. 1Valens and Caecina he praised before an assembly and placed on either side of his curule chair. 1Then he ordered the whole army to go to meet his infant son, and when the boy had been brought, he held him in his arms, covered with a general's cloak, called him Germanicus, and invested him with all the insignia of imperial rank.
1This excessive honour, amid prosperity, turned to a consolation in adversity.