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	Fabius Valens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valens was ill at the time, so that the force that Vitellius despatched from Rome to counter this threat was commanded by Caecina.
		By this time Valens had recovered from his illness and was on his way to join the army, but before he could arrive the second Battle of Bedriacum had been fought and the Vitellian forces defeated by Antonius.
		Valens therefore sailed on, and was cast up by a storm on the Stoechades (modern Iles d'Hyeres, near Toulon).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fabius_Valens (521 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1205 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Soon after Galba's accession, Valens, in conjunction with the legate of another legion, Cornelius Aquinus, put to death Fonteius Capito, the governor of Lower Germany, on the plea that he was intending to revolt, but, as many thought, because he had refused to take up arms at the solicitation of Valens and Aquinus.
		Vitellius entrusted the conduct of it to Valens and A. Caecina, the latter of whom had commanded a legion in Upper Germany, and had been one of the chief leaders of the revolt in favour of Vitellius.
		Valens was entrusted with 40,000 men belonging to the army of Lowe* Germany, with orders to march through Gaul, and persuade it to submit to Vitellius, or, if he could not succeed in so doing, to lay it'waste with fire and sword, and finally to cross over into Italy by Mont Genfvre (Cottianis Alpibus).
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3539.html (985 words)

	Battle of Bedriacum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vitellius' forces were divided into two armies, one commanded by Aulus Caecina Alienus and the other by Fabius Valens.
		They attacked Placentia but were repulsed by the Othonian garrison and fell back on Cremona to await the arrival of Valens' army.
		Here they were joined by Valens' army, which had followed a longer route through Gaul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Bedriacum (1321 words)

	Histories by P Cornelius Tacitus
		It was observed as a happy omen for Fabius Valens and the forces which he was conducting to the campaign, that on the very day on which they set out an eagle moved with a gentle flight before the army as it advanced, as if to guide it on its way.
		Valens received the tidings of the murder of Galba and the accession of Otho while he was in the country of the Leuci.
		Fabius Valens had defamed him by secret charges of which he knew nothing, publicly praising him all the while, that he might the less suspect the treachery.
	www.4literature.net /P_Cornelius_Tacitus/Histories/12.html (1163 words)

	The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus:book 3
		Valens himself merely waited, which was useless, and frittered away in deliberation days that called for action.
		Fabius Valens set sail from Portus Pisanus, but was compelled by sluggish seas or contrary wind to put in at Portus Herculis Monoeci.
		As for Valens, the sea seemed less dangerous than the coast and its towns, but his future plans were undecided, and it was easier for him to know what to avoid than whom to trust.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap11.htm (2942 words)

	Aulus Vitellius: part 2: The road to power
		During the summer, the governor of this province, Fonteius Capito, was assassinated by Cornelius Aquinus, who may have been commander of the Fifth legion Alaudae, and Fabius Valens, the commander of I Germanica.
		Fabius Valens and Aulus Caecina Alienus, the commander of the Fourth legion Macedonica at Mainz, argued that Vitellius should assume the purple, and on 1 January 69, the soldiers in Germania Inferior revolted.
		The army of Fabius Valens continued to Langres, Dyon, and Lyons, where they united with the First legion Italica and eight Batavian auxiliary units and must have received the news that the three Spanish provinces had gone over to the Vitellian side.
	www.livius.org /vi-vr/vitellius/vitellius2.html (2276 words)

	Kolbe's Greatest Books: Plutarch's Lives, Galba, Otho
		But after Fabius Valens, having the command of one legion, had first sworn fealty to Galba, and letters from Rome came with tidings of the resolves of the senate, at last with much ado he persuaded the army to declare Galba emperor.
		And Fabius Valens, the other general, was so rapacious, that neither what he plundered from enemies nor what he stole or got as gifts and bribes from his friends and allies could satisfy his wishes.
		Valens, with much difficulty, quieted their fury, after they had now begun to throw missiles at him, and quitting his camp, joined Caecina.
	www.greatestbooks.org /studentlibrary/gbooks/Plutarch/life11.htm (7324 words)

	Tacitus - HISTORIES
		He concluded indeed that Fabius Valens had left the capital, and would hasten his march, on hearing of the treason of Caecina; and Fabius was loyal to Vitellius, and not without some military skill.
		Valens, having started from the bay of Pisa, was compelled, either by a calm or a contrary wind, to put in at the port of Hercules Monoecus.
		For Valens indeed the open sea was safer than the coast or the towns, yet, all uncertain about the future, and knowing rather what he must avoid than what he could trust, he was thrown by adverse weather on the Stoechades, islands off Massilia.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/tacitus/TacitusHistory03.html (19019 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Histories (Vol II), by Tacitus, translated by W. Hamilton Fyfe.
		Valens himself, with helpless indecision, let the time for action go by while he took advice; and then rejecting the advice he was offered, chose the middle course, which is always the worst in a crisis, and thus failed both in courage and in caution.
		Valens, embarking from the Bay of Pisa, was either becalmed on a slow sea or caught by an unfavourable wind and had to put in at the harbour of Hercules Monoecus.
		As for Valens, though he felt safer at sea than among the cities on the coast, he was still full of doubts for the future, since he was certain what he had to avoid but quite uncertain whom he could trust.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16927/16927-h/ii.html (14682 words)

	Vitellius
		Caecina and Valens appreciated that if they would be successfully delayed by Othos's forces they would lose the war.
		Valens was ill. And Caecina, in a joint effort with the prefect of the fleet at Ravenna, attempted to change his allegiance from Vitellius to Vespasian (Though his troops did not obey him and instead arrested him).
		Valens, his health somewhat recovered, attempted to raise forces in Gaul to come to his emperor's aid, but without success.
	www.roman-empire.net /emperors/vitellius.html (1304 words)

	The Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fabius Valens was ordered to win over, if possible, or, if they refused his overtures, to ravage the provinces of Gaul and to invade Italy by way of the Cottian Alps; Caecina to take the nearer route, and to march down from the Penine range.
		To Valens were entrusted the picked troops of the army of Lower Germany with the eagle of the 5th legion and the auxiliary infantry and cavalry, to the number of 40,000 armed men; Caecina commanded 30,000 from Upper Germany, the strength of his force being one legion, the 21st.
		Letters were also addressed by Fabius Valens in the name of the German army to the Praetorian and city cohorts, extolling the strength of his party, and offering terms of peace.
	www.seeking4truth.com /Tacitus/TACHIS01.HTM (18811 words)

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		Manlius Valens, who was in command of the Italian legion, never received any distinction from Vitellius, although he deserved well of the party, the reason being that Fabius slandered him behind his back, while to avert his suspicions he praised him to his face.
		Valens made each of the soldiers a present of three hundred sesterces.[135] They were thus persuaded to respect the antiquity and high standing of the colony, and to listen with patience to their general's speech, in which he commended to them the lives and property of the Viennese.
		For Valens struck disgraceful bargains with the landowners and municipal authorities, often applying violent threats, as, for instance, at Lucus,[137] a township of the Vocontii, which he threatened to burn, until he was appeased with money.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16927/16927.txt (20757 words)

	The Lost Book of Annabella
		She served as a domestic in the Villa de Valens for five years before her beauty caught the eye of Fabius Valens, her master’s only son.
		Though charmed by the stately panorama of Roman life, with her raised status from slave to spouse, Amanda was happy to return to her homeland in Judea, where she could flaunt her position over her Jewish friends and relations.
		In any case, he must never be looked down upon because of me. Darling Fabius, though born of Valens blood, our son must be a true citizen of Rome, in the most literal sense, so that no shadow of our mixed marriage will taint his future.
	www.bookmasters.com /marktplc/rr00527.htm (2096 words)

	Tacitus: History: Book 2 [70]
		Not less revolting was that portion of the road which the people of Cremona had strewed with laurel leaves and roses, and on which they had raised altars, and sacrificed victims as if to greet some barbarous despot, festivities in which they delighted for the moment, but which were afterwards to work their ruin.
		Valens and Caecina were present, and pointed out the various localities of the field of battle; shewing how from one point the columns of the legions had rushed to the attack; how from another the cavalry had charged; how from a third the auxiliary troops had turned the flank of the enemy.
		Vitellius did not turn away his eyes, did not shudder to behold the unburied corpses of so many thousands of his countrymen; nay, in his exultation, in his ignorance of the doom which was so close upon himself, he actually instituted a religious ceremony in honour of the tutelary gods of the place.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/Tacitus/h02070.htm (2199 words)

	Tacitus: History: Book 3 [60]
		The bloody spectacle reduced them to despair, and it was amazing how the army of Vespasian welcomed in their hearts the destruction of Valens as the termination of the war.
		Valens was a native of Anagnia, and belonged to an Equestrian family; he was a man of loose character, but of no small ability, who sought to gain by profligacy a reputation for elegance.
		Fabius Valens, captive as he was, and reserved against the chance of disaster, was yet too formidable to them; and certainly Primus, Fuscus, and Mucianus, who exhibits the temper of his party, will not be allowed power over Vitellius except to put him to death.
	www.earth-history.com /Roman/Tacitus/h03060.htm (2464 words)

	NOVA ROMA ::: Camenaeum ::: Tacitus ::: Book III
		On this becoming known to Antonius, he determined to attack the hostile armies, while they were still distracted in feeling and divided in strength, before the generals could recover their authority, and the soldiers their subordination along with that confidence which would spring from the junction of the legions.
		Meanwhile Fabius Valens, who was moving along with a vast and luxurious train of concubines and eunuchs too tardily for a general about to take the field, received speedy intelligence of the betrayal of the Ravenna fleet by Lucilius Bassus.
		Valens once captured, everything turned to swell the resources of the conqueror; the lead was taken in Spain by the 1st legion (the "Adjutrix"), whose recollections of Otho made them hate Vitellius; they drew with them the 6th and 10th.
	www.novaroma.org /camenaeum/tacitus3.html (18890 words)

	The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus:book 2
		Valens and Caecina received a glowing tribute from Vitellius at a military parade, and were stationed close to his official chair.
		The Eleventh and Seventh were returned to their respective permanent stations, while the Thirteenth was instructed to build amphitheatres, as Caecina and Valens were preparing to exhibit gladiatorial shows (at Cremona and Bononia respectively) and Vitellius was never so preoccupied by the cares of office as to forget his pleasures.
		Valens and Caecina were in attendance, pointing out the various localities connected with the battle: this was the starting point for the legions' forward thrust; from that point the cavalry had fallen upon the foe; and in a third place the auxiliary forces had surrounded their victims.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap7.htm (3679 words)

	GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the civil war he fought on the side of Otho against Vitellius, and obtained a considerable success against Aulus Caecina Alienus (one of the, Vitellian generals) near Cremona, but did not follow it up.
		When Caecina had been joined by Fabius Valens, Paulinus advised his colleagues not to risk a decisive battle, but his advice was disregarded, and Otho (q.v.) was utterly defeated at Bedriacum.
		After Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor, Paulinus asserted that it was in consequence of his own treachery that Othos army had been defeated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PAULINUS_GAIUS_SUETONIUS.htm (211 words)

	Valens, infrastructure - Dead or Alive? - Ritchie Valens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Valens was born around AD 328, as the second son of a native of Cibalae in Pannonia When Valentinian became ruler in AD 364, Valens was chosen to rule
		Anton Valens · Vincent Valens · Irene Valens · Maxime Valens.
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	infrastructure.yournetpath.com /?q=infrastructure-valens (220 words)

	Plutarch • Life of Otho
		Fabius Valens, the other general, was so rapacious that neither what he plundered from the enemy nor what he stole or received as gifts from the allies could satisfy him.
		There were disturbances also among the enemy, and especially among the troops of Valens; for when these were told about the battle at the ambuscade, they were enraged because they were not present and had given no aid where so many men had lost their lives.
		4There most of the soldiers had already armed themselves, and Valens was giving out the watchword to them, and while the legions were taking up their positions, the best of the cavalry were sent out in advance.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Otho*.html (4707 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Vitellius
		Instead, the advance was led by Valens and another legionary general, Aulus Caecina Alienus, with each man commanding a separate column.
		Caecina was already one hundred fifty miles on his way when news reached him that Galba had been overthrown and Otho had taken his place as emperor.
		In addition, Valens, whose health had recovered, was captured while raising an army for Vitellius in Gaul and Germany; he was eventually executed.
	www.roman-emperors.org /vitell.htm (1929 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Otho by Plutarch
		When he found himself beat off at Placentia, he set off to attack Cremona, another large and rich city.
		Otho's foremost troops, upon some groundless rumour, took up the notion that the commanders on the other side would come over; and accordingly, upon their first approach, they saluted them with the friendly title of fellow-soldiers.
		This language was well accepted amongst the officers, who sounded the private soldiers, and found them desirous of peace; and Titianus also gave directions that envoys should be sent in order to a treaty.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/otho.html (2684 words)

	Otho
		But some lay the blame on Cæcina, saying, that out of a desire to gain the victory by himself before Fabius joined him, he committed sundry other errors of lesser consequence, and by engaging unseasonably and when he could not do so thoroughly, he very nearly brought all to ruin.
		As soon as Cæcina had notice, he was much surprised, and quitted his post on the river to hasten to the camp.
		And accordingly it was agreed that the conference should be between Celsus and Gallus on one part, and Valens with Cæcina on the other.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Plutarch/otho.html (2726 words)

	Otho
		Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Alienus Caecina,and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.
		But the arrival of Fabius Valens altered the aspect of affairs.
		The Vitellian commanders now resolved to bring on a decisive battle, and their designs were assisted by the divided and irresolute counsels which prevailed in Otho's camp.
	www.nndb.com /people/929/000087668 (1161 words)

	Amazon.com: Historiae I-V (Oxford Classical Texts): Books: C. D. Fisher,Tacitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Fabius was loyal to Vitellius, and not without some military
		Fabius Valens to the seat of war, and was now seeking to hide his
		Valens was a native of Anagnia, and belonged to an
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	Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Vitellian armies are now marching on Italy: Caecina through Switzerland and over the Great St. Bernard with Legio XXI Rapax and detachments of IV Macedonica and XXII Primigenia: Valens through Gaul and over Mount Genèvre with Legio V Alaudae and detachments of I Italica, XV Primigenia, and XVI.
		7. Caecina was in Upper Germany, Valens in Lower.
		On the very day of departure a happy omen greeted Fabius Valens and the army under his command. As the column advanced, an eagle flew steadily ahead and seemed to lead the way. Loudly though the soldiers cheered, hour after hour the bird flew undismayed, and was taken for a sure omen of success.
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