Hist. 2.90.1At in Pannoniā tertia decima legiō ac septima Galbiāna, dolōrem īramque Bedriacēnsis pugnae retinentēs, haud cūnctanter Vespasiānō accessēre, vī praecipuā Prīmī Antōniī.But 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. Hist. 2.90.1Is lēgibus nocēns et tempore Nerōnis falsī damnātus inter alia bellī mala senātōrium ōrdinem reciperāverat.He, guilty before the law and condemned for forgery in Nero's time, had recovered his senatorial rank among the other evils of war. Hist. 2.90.1Praepositus ā Galbā septimae legiōnī scrīptitāsse Othōnī crēdēbātur, ducem sē partibus offerēns;Put in command of the Seventh Legion by Galba, he was believed to have written repeatedly to Otho, offering himself to the party as leader; Hist. 2.90.1ā quō neglēctus in nūllō Othōniānī bellī ūsū fuit.neglected by him, he was of no use in Otho's war. Hist. 2.90.1Labantibus Vitelliī rēbus Vespasiānum secūtus grande mōmentum addidit, strēnuus manū, sermōne promptus, serendae in aliōs invidiae artifex, discordiīs et sēditiōnibus potēns, raptor, largītor, pāce pessimus, bellō nōn spernendus.As 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.
Hist. 2.90.1Iūnctī inde Moesicī ac Pannonicī exercitūs Dalmaticum mīlitem trāxēre, quamquam cōnsulāribus lēgātīs nihil turbantibus.Then the Moesian and Pannonian armies, now joined, drew the Dalmatian soldiery along with them, although the consular legates caused no disturbance. Hist. 2.90.1Tampius Flāviānus Pannoniam, Pompeius Silvānus Dalmatiam tenēbant, dīvitēs senēs;Tampius Flavianus held Pannonia, Pompeius Silvanus Dalmatia, both rich old men; Hist. 2.90.1sed prōcūrātor aderat Cornēlius Fuscus, vigēns aetāte, clārīs nātālibus.but the procurator Cornelius Fuscus was at hand, in the vigour of his age and of distinguished birth. Hist. 2.90.1Prīmā iuventā quiētis cupīdine senātōrium ōrdinem exuerat;In his early youth he had laid aside senatorial rank from a desire for quiet; Hist. 2.90.1īdem prō Galbā dux colōniae suae, eāque operā prōcūrātiōnem adeptus, susceptīs Vespasiānī partibus ācerrimam bellō facem praetulit: nōn tam praemiīs perīculōrum quam ipsīs perīculīs laetus prō certīs et ōlim partīs nova ambigua ancipitia mālēbat.yet 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.
Hist. 2.90.1Igitur movēre et quatere, quidquid usquam aegrum foret, adgrediuntur.So they set about stirring and shaking whatever was sick anywhere. Hist. 2.90.1Scrīptae in Britanniam ad quārtadecimānōs, in Hispāniam ad prīmānōs epistulae, quod utraque legiō prō Othōne, adversa Vitelliō fuerat;Letters 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; Hist. 2.90.1sparguntur per Galliās litterae;dispatches are scattered throughout the Gallic provinces; Hist. 2.90.1mōmentōque temporis flagrābat ingēns bellum, Illyricīs exercitibus palam dēscīscentibus, cēterīs fortūnam secūtūrīs.and in a moment of time a huge war was ablaze, with the Illyrian armies openly revolting and the rest ready to follow fortune.