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Haec singuli, haec universi, ut quemque dolor impulerat, vociferantes, initio a quinta legione orto, (initio a quinta legione orto: lit. ‘a beginning arising from the Fifth legion’) repositis Vitellii imaginibus vincla Caecinae iniciunt; Fabium Fabullum quintae legionis legatum et Cassium Longum praefectum castrorum (quintae legionis legatum … praefectum castrorum: in imperial times, a legate was a legion commander; a prefect of the camp was the officer in charge of updating and maintaining equipment and seeing to the troops’ training and organisation.) duces deligunt; forte oblatos (forte oblatos: ‘having been placed by chance in the soldiers’ way’; oblatos is perf. participle of offero.) trium Liburnicarum milites, ignaros et insontis, trucidant; relictis castris, abrupto ponte (relictis castris, abrupto ponte: the camp being vacated is the one chosen and fortified by Caecina just north of Ostiglia (see ch. 9); the bridge being destroyed was probably over the river Adige at Forum Alieni, although some think that the river was the Po, others that it was the Tartarus, the streamlet mentioned in ch. 9.) Hostiliam rursus, inde Cremonam pergunt, ut legionibus primae Italicae et unietvicensimae Rapaci iungerentur, quas Caecina ad obtinendam Cremonam cum parte equitum praemiserat.