At first they hesitated and waited till his back was turned, but soon they ceased to care and openly showed their disrespect. At last Vitellius grew ashamed of the failure of his efforts and excused them from the services which they refused to render. FOOTNOTES: [145] This incident was probably another historical commonplace. See the story from Plutarch (ii. 46, note 316), which is also told by Suetonius and Dio. [146] The prefects of the Guards (cp. ii. 92). [147] At Misenum. (Leg. II Adjutrix.) The Ravenna marines were on the Flavian side (see chap. 50). [148] i.e. the rest of the Guards (2), with the city garrison (4), and police (7) (cp. ii. 93). [149] i.e. granting them special privileges denied to other communities in the same province. [150] A sort of 'half-way house to Roman citizenship'. Full commercial rights were included but not those of intermarriage. It was possible for individual citizens in a Latin town to obtain the full rights of a Roman. [151] Bevagna. [152] Dio makes them vultures and the scene a sacrifice: they scattered the victims and nearly knocked Vitellius off his pulpit. [153] Described in the following chapter. [154] He had succeeded Bassus (iii. 12). [155] Near the mouth of the Liris. [156] Horace's 'Anxur perched on gleaming rocks'. It lay near the Pontine marshes on the Appian way. [157] Narni. [158] Priscus and Varus (see chap. 55). [159] i. 62, ii. 62. THE PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES