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Excerpt from Five Book of the History of C. Cornelius Tacitus: With His Treatise on the Manners of the Germans, and His Life of Agricola Virgins} xx'jxi filial-{56th of fial'ba'. L. Vitellius, before Gall bais'de'aaig aims at the' toilet-eighty: Ll. Origin of the revolt among the German legions. Vitellius saluted em sror. He sends two armies to invade Ital one under Fabius alens, and the other under Cm'cina. Vi{ellins follows with a third army. His excessive luxury and stupidity. The crdelty and rapine of Va lens and Cacina. LXI. The Gauls, partly through fear, and partly from inclination, swearfidelity to Vitellius. LXIV. Vat lens on his march hears of the death Galba. Lxvll. Cmcina attacks the Helvetians, and lays waste the'country. He crosses the Alps into italy. Lxxi. Otho's conduct at Rome he begins to act with vigour. LXX. Death of Tigellinus, and his cha racter. Lxxlv. Letters between Otho and Vitellius: they en. Deavour to overreach each other. Emissaries employed by both. The people of Sarmiitia invade the province of Mossia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.