1But in Pannonia the Thirteenth Legion and the Seventh Galbian, keeping their resentment and anger over the battle of Bedriacum, joined Vespasian without hesitation, chiefly through the energy of Antonius Primus. 1He, guilty before the law and condemned for forgery in Nero's time, had recovered his senatorial rank among the other evils of war. 1Put in command of the Seventh Legion by Galba, he was believed to have written repeatedly to Otho, offering himself to the party as leader; 1neglected by him, he was of no use in Otho's war. 1As Vitellius' fortunes tottered, he followed Vespasian and added great weight to his side, vigorous in action, ready in speech, an artist at sowing ill-will against others, powerful in discord and mutiny, a plunderer and a lavish giver, very bad in peace, not to be despised in war.
1Then the Moesian and Pannonian armies, now joined, drew the Dalmatian soldiery along with them, although the consular legates caused no disturbance. 1Tampius Flavianus held Pannonia, Pompeius Silvanus Dalmatia, both rich old men; 1but the procurator Cornelius Fuscus was at hand, in the vigour of his age and of distinguished birth. 1In his early youth he had laid aside senatorial rank from a desire for quiet; 1yet the same man had led his own colony for Galba, and, having obtained a procuratorship for that service, he took up Vespasian's cause and carried a most fiery torch before the war: delighting not so much in the rewards of danger as in danger itself, he preferred new, doubtful and hazardous things to what was certain and long since won.
1So they set about stirring and shaking whatever was sick anywhere. 1Letters were written to the men of the Fourteenth in Britain and to those of the First in Spain, because both legions had been for Otho and hostile to Vitellius; 1dispatches are scattered throughout the Gallic provinces; 1and in a moment of time a huge war was ablaze, with the Illyrian armies openly revolting and the rest ready to follow fortune.