http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/new-roman-battlefield-in-germany-the-search-for-information-before-the-excavation/ Weblog of Jared Holloway Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:41:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/new-roman-battlefield-in-germany-the-search-for-information-before-the-excavation/#comment-757 charleyjk4 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:13 +0000 http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/?p=1160#comment-757 Your comments are entirely correct.Augustus was so demoralized by the loss of his legions,he gave an injunction to his successors that the natural boundaries of the empire should remain as they were(advice discarded by them). However,you forgot to mention the fact that this defeat by the barbarians was avenged by the Roman general,Germanicus who raided the Barbarian hide outs and even recovered the lost standards of the legions.Germanicus was poisoned on the orders of Tiberius. Your comments are entirely correct.Augustus was so demoralized by the loss of his legions,he gave an injunction to his successors that the natural boundaries of the empire should remain as they were(advice discarded by them).
However,you forgot to mention the fact that this defeat by the barbarians was avenged by the Roman general,Germanicus who raided the Barbarian hide outs and even recovered the lost standards of the legions.Germanicus was poisoned on the orders of Tiberius.

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