•182 GALEA. Galba now consulting whether he should go out, Vinius dissuaded him, but Celsus * and Laco encouraged him by all means to do so, and sharply reprimanded Vinius. But on a sudden a rumor came hot that Otho was slain in the camp ; and presently appeared one Julius Atticus, a man of some distinction in the guards, running up with his drawn sword, crying out that he had slain Caesar's enemy; and pressing thi'ough the crowd that stood in his way, he presented himself before Galba with his bloody weapon, who, looking on him, demanded, " Who gave you your orders ? " f And on his answering that it had been his duty and the obligation of the oath he had taken, the people applauded, giving loud acclamations, and Galba got into his chair and was carried out to sacrifice to Jupi- ter, and so to show himself publicly. But coming into the forum, there met him there, like a turn of wind, the op- posite story, that Otho had made himself master of the camp. And as usual in a crowd of such a size, some called to him to return back, others to move forward ; some encouraged him to be bold and fear nothing, others bade him be cautious and distrust. And thus whilst his chair was tossed to and fro, as it were on the waves, often tottering, there appeared first horse, and straightway heavy-armed foot, coming through Paulus's court,J and all with one accord crying out, " Down with this private Agrippa, who built here the Pan- theon, on one side of the great road out of the city, (now the Corso,) and laid out on the other the Cam- pus Agrippae, one of the ornaments of which was this Portico, men- tioned by Horace as a place of fashionable resort : — Ut bene notum Porticus Agrippse et via te conspexerit Appi, Ire tamen restat Numa quo devenit et Ancus.
- Celsus should, I think, be
Icelus, who occurs in this connec- tion in Tacitus. Celsus had al- ready left the Palatine to go to the Porch of Agrippa and bring up the Illyrian troops. t " Commilito, quis jussit ? " " Fellow .soldier, who bade it ? " are the words in Tacitus. X The Basilica Pauli, on tho other side of the forum, the side nearer the camp.
