The emperor on hearing of the death of his representative appointed
Aulus Didius in his place, that the province might not be left without
a governor. Didius, though he quickly arrived, found matters far from prosperous,
for the legion under the command of Manlius Valens had meanwhile been defeated,
and the disaster had been exaggerated by the enemy to alarm the new general,
while he again magnified it, that he might win the more glory by quelling
the movement or have a fairer |