Copy 1, Volume 3

Tacitus / Translated by Arthur Murphy.

  • Tacitus, Cornelius
Date:
1830-1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tacitus / Translated by Arthur Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to his brother Salvius cei es proceeded on his expedition. 1 Otho leftthe city of Rome on the 24th day of March, as appears from Suetonius, who mentions his neglect of the in- stitutions relating to the Ancilia, as an inauspicious begin- ning of the war. Suetonius adds that he Set out on the day when all who paid their worship to the mother of the gods began the usual ceremonies. Now that day was the 9th of the calends of April, which answers to the 24th of March. See Suetonius, life of Otho, $ 8. END OF VOL. III.