enemies do not inhumanly deny burial to the slain: when I have satiated my
sorrow with a thousand kisses, and a flood of tears; command me also to be
murdered, that these our brethren may together bury my poor brother and
me, slaughtered both as victims, yet both guiltless of any crime but that
of studying the common interest of the legions."

He inflamed those his complaints and expostulations with affecting sighs
and lamentations, beat his breast, tore his face, and showed all the
symptoms of anguish. Then those who carried him giving way, he threw
himself headlong at the feet of his companions; and thus prostrate and
supplicating, in them raised such a spirit of commiseration and such a
storm of vengeance, that one party of them instantly seized and bound the
General's gladiators; another, the rest of his family; while many ran and
dispersed themselves to search for the corpse: and had it not been quickly
manifest that there was no corpse to be found, that the slaves of Blesus
had upon the rack cleared themselves, and that Vibulenus never had any
brother; they had gone nigh to have sacrificed the General. As it was,
they expulsed the Camp-Marshal and Tribunes; and as they fled, plundered
their baggage: they likewise put to death Lucilius the Centurion, whom
they had sarcastically named _Cedo Alteram_, because when upon the back of
a soldier he had broken one wand, he was wont to call for another, and
then a third. The other Centurions lurked in concealment, all but Julius
Clemens, who for his prompt capacity was saved, in order to manage the
negotiations of the soldiers: even two of the legions, the eighth and the
fifteenth, were ready to turn their swords upon each other; and had, but
for the ninth: one Sirpicus, a centurion, was the subject of the quarrel;
him the eighth required to be put to death, and the fifteenth protected
him; but the ninth interposed with entreaties to both, and with threats to
those who would not listen to prayers.