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The soldiers, who perceived that, purely to evade present difficulty, the
concessions were forged, insisted to have them forthwith executed; and
instantly the Tribunes despatched the discharge of the veterans: that of
the money was adjourned to their several winter quarters; but the fifth
legion, and the one-and-twentieth, refused to stir, till in that very camp
they were paid; so that out of the money reserved by himself and his
friends for travailing expenses, Germanicus was obliged to raise the sum.
Caecina, Lieutenant-General, led the first legion and twentieth back to
the capital of the Ubians: an infamous march, when the plunder of their
General's coffers was carried amidst the ensigns and Roman Eagles.
Germanicus, the while, proceeding to the army in higher Germany, brought
the second, thirteenth, and sixteenth legions to swear allegiance without
hesitation: to the fourteenth, who manifested some short suspense, he made
unasked a tender of their money, and a present discharge.
But a party of veterans which belonged to the disorderly legions, and then
in garrison among the Chaucians, as they began a sedition there, were
somewhat quelled by the instant execution of two of their body: an
execution this, commanded by Maenius, Camp-Marshal, and rather of good
example, than done by competent authority.
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