The War Between Vitellius and Otho

Vailans endured one mutiny on his march that required him to slip out of the camp in slaves' clothes, and then obviously a second one when his army disobeyed his orders. Otho himself finally left Rome at the head of another six to nine thousand troops. The emperor settled with his accompanying forces in the town of Bricella, where he too waited for the Balkan reinforcements.