1Meanwhile Vespasian's enterprise was hastened by the zeal of the Illyrian army in coming over to his side: the Third Legion set an example to the other legions of Moesia; 1these were the Eighth and the Seventh Claudian, steeped in favour for Otho, although they had not taken part in the battle. 1Having advanced to Aquileia, they had driven off those who brought news about Otho, torn up the standards bearing Vitellius' name, and finally seized the money and divided it among themselves, behaving like enemies. 1Hence fear, and from fear a plan: that what would have to be excused before Vitellius could be counted to their credit with Vespasian.
1So the three Moesian legions tried to win over the Pannonian army by letters, or prepared force if it refused. 1In that upheaval Aponius Saturninus, governor of Moesia, ventures a most wicked crime, sending a centurion to kill Tettius Julianus, legate of the Seventh Legion, because of private quarrels, for which he used the party's cause as a pretext. 1Julianus, learning of the danger and taking on men who knew the country, fled through the trackless parts of Moesia beyond Mount Haemus; 1nor did he afterwards take part in the civil war, dragging out with various delays the journey he had undertaken to Vespasian, and hesitating or hurrying according to the news.