[166] Otho and Titianus would naturally have held it for four months. [167] Vopiscus presumably came from Vienne, which had espoused the cause first of Vindex, then of Galba. Cp. chap. 65. [168] Not to be confused with Vespasian's brother. [169] Grandfather of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. [170] Name uncertain in MS. [171] i.e. to be accused of 'treason' was in these days to win public sympathy, even though the defendant were guilty of offences under other more useful statutes. [172] Seville and Merida. [173] As the rest of this sentence refers to Spain and Portugal it has been proposed to read for _Lingones Lusones_, a Celtiberian tribe round the sources of the Tagus. The Lingones were devoted to the cause of Vitellius. (See chap. 53, &c.) [174] They had been thrown down by the populace, when Nero, after divorcing Antonia, was shamed--or frightened--into taking her back. (Cp. chap. 13.) [175] They lived between the Dnieper and the Don, to the north of the Sea of Azov. [176] Gallica. [177] This would depict him in full triumphal garb. But only the emperor could actually hold a triumph, since it was under his auspices that his generals fought. [178] _Cohors civium Romanorum_. See note 130. [179] The meaning of the title _praefectus legionis_ is doubtful. It seems most likely to mean the same as _praefectus castrorum_, an officer who superintended the camp and sometimes acted as second-in-command (cp. ii. 89). The post was one to which senior centurions could rise. At this period they were not attached to a legion, but to a camp, where more than one legion might be quartered. That makes the phrase here used curious. The legion is that of the marines now stationed in Rome (cp. chaps. 6 and 9). They appear to have joined the mutinous Seventeenth cohort when they reached the city. [180] About L40. [181] The insignia of a tribunus were a tunic with a broad or narrow stripe (accordingly as they were of senatorial or equestrian rank), and a gold ring. A centurion carried a staff made of a vine-branch, for disciplinary purposes. [182] One of the three chapels in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline. [183] The pons Sublicius which led from the Velabrum to Janiculum. It was the bridge which Horatius Cocles defended, and a certain sanctity attached to it. [184] Plutarch mentions that the quarter which suffered most was that which contained the retail provision-shops. OTHO'S PLANS