1Vitellius himself, setting out from the Mulvian Bridge on a splendid horse, in a general's cloak and wearing his sword, driving the senate and people before him, was deterred by the advice of his friends from entering as though into a captured city, and, putting on the bordered toga and with his column drawn up in order, he advanced on foot. 1The eagles of four legions were in the front line, and around them as many standards from other legions; then the ensigns of twelve cavalry squadrons, and after the ranks of the infantry the cavalry; 1then thirty-four cohorts, distinguished according to the names of their peoples or the style of their arms.
1Before the eagles marched the camp prefects and tribunes and the senior centurions, dressed in white, the rest each beside his own century, gleaming with arms and decorations; 1and the soldiers' medallions and collars shone: a handsome sight, and an army not worthy to have Vitellius as emperor. 1So he entered the Capitol, and there he embraced his mother and honoured her with the title of Augusta.