Deed — 2 authors face each other below

second battle of Bedriacum

kind: battle · October 69 CE — the editor’s frame · 2 mentions across 2 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The night battle that broke Vitellius, and the four-day sack of Cremona it unleashed. The April battle on the same ground is first-bedriacum-69ce.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Tacitus gives the night battle and then the atrocity at full length — forty thousand armed men bursting into Cremona, 'neither age nor rank were any protection'; Suetonius' Vitellius hears of it only as the moment his cause is 'everywhere either worsted or betrayed.' The sack that Tacitus makes the year's moral nadir barely dents the biographies — an asymmetry the index preserves rather than smooths.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 69 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 69 CE — date secure ·

24-25 October 69 CE, the Flavian army under Antonius Primus against the Vitellians; the sack of Cremona followed at once.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Tacitus · one account

3.15–3.34 the principal narrative The night battle, the storming of the camp, and the sack of Cremona.

Forty thousand armed men burst into Cremona, and with them a body of sutlers and camp-followers, yet more numerous Tac. Hist. 3.33

The Histories · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1864

Suetonius · one account

15 in passing The collapse as Vitellius experienced it: armies revolting, forces worsted or betrayed.

And after he was everywhere either worsted or betrayed, he made a bargain with Flavius Sabinus, the brother of Vespasia Suet. Vit. 15

Vitellius · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Tiberius — 1 episode shared Vespasian — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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