1So Vitellius, from fear, and from hatred because Dolabella had lately taken his former wife Petronia in marriage, summoned him by letter, and ordered him to avoid the crowds of the Flaminian Way, turn aside to Interamna and be killed there. 1That seemed too long to the assassin: on the journey, at an inn, he threw him to the ground and cut his throat, to the great discredit of the new reign, of which this was recognised as the first specimen. 1And Triaria's licence was made more odious by a modest example close at hand, Galeria, the emperor's wife, who had no part in these grim deeds; 1and of equal virtue was the mother of the Vitellii, Sextilia, a woman of the old ways: indeed she was reported to have said, on her son's first letters, that she had borne not a Germanicus but a Vitellius.
1Nor afterwards was she won over to joy by any allurements of fortune or by the courting of the citizens; she felt only the misfortunes of her house.