Tiberius allegedly had refused an earlier offer from a Chatti nobleman to poison Arminius: "It was not by secret treachery but openly and by arms that the people of Rome avenged themselves on their enemies." Arminius suffered death two years later, in 21 AD, murdered by opponents within his own tribe who felt he was becoming too powerful. In 19 AD, Germanicus died in Antioch under circumstances which led many to believe he had been poisoned by his opponents. It ended with Marbod fleeing to Ravenna and Roman protection, but Arminius failed to break into the "natural fortification" of Bohemia, and the war ended in stalemate. With the end of the Roman threat, a war broke out between Arminius and Marbod, king of the Marcomanni. The third Roman eagle was recovered in AD 41 by Publius Gabinius under the emperor Claudius. Instead, he offered Germanicus the honor of a triumph for his two victories.
17, however, having decided the frontier with Germania would stand at the Rhine river. In AD 16, a second eagle was retrieved Tiberius denied the request of Germanicus to launch an additional campaign for A.D. In AD 15 Roman troops managed to recapture one of the three legionary eagles lost in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Arminius also faced opposition from his father-in-law and other pro-Roman Germanic leaders. Roman retaliation, inter-tribal conflicts, and death īetween 14 and 16 AD, Germanicus launched punitive operations into Germany, twice defeating Arminius: first in the Battle of the Weser River and later near the Wall of the Angrivarii. Roman attempts to reconquer Germany failed, although the Romans managed to break Arminius's alliance and inflicted defeats and severe damage. Arminius' success in destroying three entire legions and driving the Romans out of Germany was one of the most devastating defeats Rome suffered in its history, and a high point of Germanic power for centuries. When defeat was certain, Varus committed suicide by falling on his sword. Recent archaeological finds show the long-debated location of the three-day battle was almost certainly near Kalkriese Hill, about 20 km north of Osnabrück. Arminius's tribe, the Cherusci, and their allies the Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci, and Sicambri ambushed and annihilated Varus' entire army, totaling over 20,000 men. Varus and his legions marched right into the trap Arminius had set for them near Kalkriese, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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He persuaded Varus to divert the three legions under his command (composed of the 17th, 18th and 19th legions, plus three cavalry detachments and six cohorts of auxiliaries) from the march to winter quarters to suppress the rebellion. In the fall of 9 AD, the 25-year-old Arminius brought to Varus a report of rebellion in northern Germany. Arminius began plotting to unite various Germanic tribes to thwart Roman efforts to incorporate their lands into the empire. He returned to northern Germania in 7 or 8 AD, where the Roman Empire had established secure control of the territories just east of the Rhine, along the Lippe and Main rivers, and was now seeking to extend its hegemony eastward to the Weser and Elbe rivers, under Publius Quinctilius Varus, a high-ranking administrative official appointed by Augustus as governor. Main article: Battle of the Teutoburg ForestĪround the year 4 AD, Arminius assumed command of a Cheruscan detachment of Roman auxiliary forces, probably fighting in the Pannonian wars on the Balkan peninsula. It was during this period that the name "Hermann" (meaning "soldier", "army man" or "warrior") came into use as the German equivalent of Arminius the religious reformer Martin Luther is thought to have been the first to equate the two names. During the Reformation but especially during 19th century German nationalism, Arminius was used as a symbol of the German-speaking people and their fight against Rome.
"Arminius" is probably a Latinized variant of the Proto-Germanic *erminaz ( Irmin) meaning "great" (cf.
Hermann had lived in Rome as a hostage in his youth, where he had received a military education, and obtained Roman citizenship as well as the status of equestrian (petty noble) before returning to Germania and driving the Romans out. 1.2 Roman retaliation, inter-tribal conflicts, and deathĪrminius, born in 18 or 17 BC, was son of the Cheruscan chief Segimerus (German language: Segimer) and trained as a Roman military commander.
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