Histories 2.87

1Mucianus, with a light-armed force, acting as a partner in empire rather than a servant, marching neither slowly, lest he seem to delay, nor yet hurrying, let rumour grow through the very distance, aware that his strength was modest and that greater things are believed of those who are absent; 1but the Sixth Legion and thirteen thousand detachment troops followed in a huge column. 1He had ordered the fleet to be brought from Pontus to Byzantium, undecided whether to bypass Moesia and make for Dyrrachium with infantry and cavalry, and at the same time to close with warships the sea facing Italy, leaving safe behind his back Achaia and Asia, which would be exposed defenceless to Vitellius unless they were secured by garrisons; 1and he reckoned that Vitellius himself would be uncertain which part of Italy to protect, if Brundisium and Tarentum and the shores of Calabria and Lucania were attacked by his hostile fleets.