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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book I Chapter 20: Revolt in Pannonia. Rufus[AD 14]
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Meanwhile the companies which previous to the mutiny had been sent to Nauportum to make roads and bridges and for other purposes, when they heard of the tumult in the camp, tore up the standards, and having plundered the neighbouring villages and Nauportum itself, which was like a town, assailed the centurions who restrained them with jeers and insults, last of all, with blows. Their chief rage was against Aufidienus Rufus, the camp-prefect, whom they dragged from a waggon, loaded with baggage, and drove on at the head of the column, asking him in ridicule whether he liked to bear such huge burdens and such long marches. Rufus, who had long been a common soldier, then a centurion, and subsequently camp-prefect, tried to revive the old severe discipline, inured as he was to work and toil, and all the sterner because he had endured.

Event: Revolt in Pannonia