[431] The other detachments of legions IV and XXII.
[432] Riol.
[433] Hordeonius Flaccus, Vocula, Herennius, and Numisius.
[434] Legions I and XVI.
[435] They had, as a matter of fact, changed their allegiance no less than six times since the outbreak of the civil war.
[436] Ariovistus, king of the Suebi, summoned to aid one Gallic confederacy against another, formed the ambition of conquering Gaul, but was defeated by Julius Caesar near Besançon (Vesontio) in 58 b.c.
[438] Tutor erred. Cerialis had also the Twenty-first from Vindonissa, Felix's auxiliary cohorts, and the troops he had found at Mainz (see chaps. [70] and [71]).
[439] He suppresses his own defeat at Bingen (chap. [70]).
[440] The town lay on the right bank of the Moselle; the Roman camp on the left bank between the river and the hills. There was only one bridge.