He was, indeed, far cleverer than most barbarians, and professed to be a second Sertorius or Hannibal, because they all three had the same physical defect. He was afraid that if he openly rebelled against the Roman people they would treat him as an enemy, and march on him at once, so he pretended to be a keen supporter of Vespasian's party. This much was true, that Antonius Primus had written instructing him to divert the auxiliaries whom Vitellius had summoned, and to delay the legions on the pretence of a rising in Germany.
Baina Zivilek, barbaroengan ohi baino talentu argiagoko eta Sertorio edo Anibal bat bezala aurkezturik, aurpegiko akats berdin eta guzti, erromatar herritik argiro desertatzen bazuen, bere aurka etsaitzat jo ez zezaten, Vespasianoren adiskidetasuna eta honen alderdiaren babesa ipini zituen aurretik, Primo Antonioren gutun bat ere bidali ziotelarik, non Viteliok eskaturiko errefortzuak desbidatzeko eta legioei eusteko agintzen zitzaion, germaniar matxinadaren aitzakian.