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Vitellium infestis mucronibus coactum modo erigere os et offerre contumeliis, nunc cadentis statuas suas, plerumque rostra (rostra: the platform from which speakers addressed the Roman public in the Forum, so called because decorated with the beaks (rostra) of captured enemy ships) aut Galbae occisi locum (Galbae occisi locum: lit. ‘the place of the murdered Galba’, near Lacus Curtius, a pool in the ground in the Forum) contueri, postremo ad Gemonias, (ad Gemonias: see note at the end of ch. 74.) ubi corpus Flavii Sabini iacuerat, propulere. una vox non degeneris animi excepta, (una vox non degeneris animi excepta: ‘one utterance was received [from him] not of a degenerate mind’.) cum tribuno insultanti (tribuno insultanti: abl. abs. of causal force, ‘because a tribune was scoffing at him’) se tamen imperatorem eius fuisse respondit; (cum …respondit: temporal cum is most often followed by perf. indicative.) ac deinde ingestis vulneribus concidit. (ingestis vulneribus concidit: ‘he fell by reason of wounds inflicted on him’; Vitellius died on Dec 26 or 27, 69 A.D.) et vulgus eadem pravitate insectabatur interfectum qua foverat viventem.