POETOVIO, PANNONIA 23 AUGUSTUS 69 AD
Born in Tolosa, a city in Gaul, Marcus Antonius Primus had been exiled by Nero for admittedly illegal behavior – embezzlement. To be precise, he had been convicted for witnessing a forged will that had been lodged with the Vestals.
Even before Nero was dead, Antonius had written to Galba, casting himself as a victim of Nero"s evil whims. Willing to overlook minor offences in return for support, Galba had recalled him, restored him to senatorial rank, and made him a junior legate of the newly-formed Seventh Galbiana. This was the force that had marched with Galba from Hispania, and that Galba had imprudently sent away after his arrival in Rome. Had that army not been removed to Pannonia, had it remained near Rome, there would have been no Othonian revo
