Some of the chiefs of the Gauls had likewise
joined him with succours, the better to disguise their defection, and to
push it with more effect hereafter. Even Sacrovir was beheld engaged in
fight for the Romans, with his head bare, a _demonstration_, he pretended,
_of his bravery_; but the prisoners averred, that "he did it to be known
to his countrymen, and to escape their darts."
An account of all this was laid before Tiberius, who slighted it, and by
hesitation fostered the war. Florus the while pushed his designs, and
tried to debauch a regiment of horse, levied at Treves, and kept under our
pay and discipline: he would have engaged them to begin the war, by
putting to the sword the Roman merchants; and some few were corrupted, but
the body remained in their allegiance. A rabble however, of his own
followers and desperate debtors, took arms and were making to the forest
of Arden, when the legions sent from both armies by Visellius and Caius
Silius, through different routes to intercept them, marred their march:
and Julius Indus, one of the same country with Florus, at enmity with him,
and therefore more eager to engage him, was despatched forward with a
chosen band, and broke the ill-appointed multitude.
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