Primane et vicesima legiones, illa signis a Tiberio acceptis, tu tot proeliorum socia, tot praemiis aucta, hanc tam egregiam duci vestro gratiam refertis? Hunc ego nuntium patri, laeta omnia aliis e provinciis audienti, feram? ipsius tirones, ipsius veteranos non missione, non pecunia satiatos: hic tantum interfici centuriones, eici tribunos, includi legatos, infecta sanguine castra, flumina, meque precariam animam inter infensos trahere.
And is it the first and twentieth legions,'the men who took their standards from Tiberius, and you who have shared his many fields and thriven on his many bounties,'that make this generous return to their leader? Is this the news I must carry to my father, while he hears from other provinces that all is well'that his own recruits, his own veterans, are not sated yet with money and dismissals; that here only centurions are murdered, tribunes ejected, generals imprisoned; that camp and river are red with blood, while I myself linger out a precarious life among men that seek to take it away?
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