But the soldiers sought and found him; for naturally he could not go entirely unrecognized very long after having been emperor. They seized him, covered as he was with rubbish and blood (for he had been bitten by the dogs), and tearing off his tunic they bound his hands behind his back and put a rope round his neck.
Edition :
Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-.
Notes :
Vitellius was afterwards humiliated and finalled killed, described in: "Soldiers of Vespasian physically and verbally humiliate Vitellius.", "A Germanic Soldier of Vespasian wounds Vitellius, trying to kill him." and "Soldiers of Vespasian kill Vitellius."
