[115] His supposed murder by Vitellius is described, iii. [38] [39]
[116] Legio Prima Italica, formed by Nero.
[117] Called after Statilius Taurus, who first enlisted it. He was Pro-consul of Africa under Nero. Cp. note [146].
[118] Their mutiny in a.d. 69 is described by Tacitus, Agr. 16.
[119] i.e. by detachments from it.
[120] Mt. Cenis.
[121] Great St. Bernard.
[122] i.e. he had the main body of the Legion V, known as 'The Larks', and only detachments from the other legions.
[123] Known as 'Rapax', and stationed at Windisch (Vindonissa), east of the point where the Rhine turns to flow north.