There was equal alarm on the emperor's side. They put but little trust in Geta, who commanded the prætorians, a man swayed with equal ease to good or evil. Narcissus in concert with others who dreaded the same fate, declared that the only hope of safety for the emperor lay in his transferring for that one day the command of the soldiers to one of the freedmen, and he offered to undertake it himself. And that Claudius might not be induced by Lucius Vitellius and Largus Cæcina to repent, while he was riding into Rome, he asked and took a seat in the emperor's carriage.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Claudius — a candidate entry Vitellius — a life
The Annals, Tacitus — translated by Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1876
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