Finally, grieved to the heart at what he had suffered and what he had been hearing, he cried: "And yet I was once our emperor." At that the soldiers became enraged and led him to the Stairway, where they struck him down. Then they cut off his head and carried it about all over the city.
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 previous humiliations of Vitellius, please refer to: "Soldiers of Vespasian physically and verbally humiliate Vitellius." For the mutiliation of the body, refer to: "Soldiers of Vespasian cut off Vitellius’ head and show it throughout Rome."
