There
was equal alarm on the emperor's side. They put but little trust in Geta,
who commanded the prætorians, a man swayed with equal ease to good or
evil. Narcissus in concert with others who dreaded the same fate, declared
that the only hope of safety for the emperor lay in his transferring for
that one day the command of the soldiers to one of the freedmen, and he
offered to undertake it himself. And that Claudius might not be induced by
Lucius Vitellius and Largus Cæcina to repent, while he was riding into
Rome, he asked and took a seat in the emperor's
carriage.