Histories 2.77

1It is scarcely credible to relate how much arrogance and indolence grew in Vitellius after scouts from Syria and Judaea reported that the East had sworn allegiance to him. 1For although the reports were still vague and of uncertain origin, Vespasian was nonetheless on men's lips and in rumour, and at his name Vitellius was usually roused: now, as though they had no rival, he himself and his army had burst out into foreign ways, with cruelty, lust and plunder.