The army of Galba kills 7000 guards of Nero near Rome.

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Related Conflict :	Year of the Four Emperors
Perpetrator (Group) :	Roman Army of Galba Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Roman Army of Nero Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: losses
Third Party (Person) :	Servius Sulpicius Galba Origin: Roman, Age: old, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: encouragement
Level :	intrasocial
Source :	Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman History 64.3.2Lucius Cassius Dio Roman History 64.3.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Roma (Rome)
Time Periode :	Roman Empire
Century :	A.D. 1
Year :	A.D. 69
Context :	military battle
Motivation :	tactical/strategical following orders
Long-Term Consequence :	execution
Original Text :	ὡς δ᾽ ἐπλησίασε τῇ πόλει, ἀπήντησαν αὐτῷ οἱ δορυφόροι τοῦ Νέρωνος, καὶ ἠξίουν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ στρατείᾳ φυλαχθῆναι. καὶ ὃς τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἀνεβάλετο ὡς καὶ σκεψόμενος περὶ τούτου, ὡς δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπείθοντο ἀλλ᾽ ἐθορύβουν, ἐφῆκέ σφισι τὸ στράτευμα, καὶ οἱ μὲν παραχρῆμα ἐς ἑπτακισχιλίους ἀπέθανον, οἱ δὲ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο δεκατευθέντες.
Translation :	As he drew near the City, the guards of Nero met him and asked to be retained in the same service. At first he put them off, ostensibly to take the matter under advisement; and when they would not listen to this but kept up a disturbance, he sent the army against them. As a result about seven thousand of them perished on the spot and the survivors were later decimated.
Edition :	Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-.
Notes :	For the following decimation of the survivors, please refer to: "Guards of Nero are decimated on orders of Galba."
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