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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book II Chapter 18: War with the Germans. Victory for the Romans (cont.)[AD 16] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
It was a great victory and without bloodshed to us. From nine in the morning to nightfall the enemy were slaughtered, and ten miles were covered with arms and dead bodies, while there were found amid the plunder the chains which the Germans had brought with them for the Romans as though the issue were certain. The soldiers on the battle field hailed Tiberius as as Imperator, and raised a mound on which arms were piled in the style of a trophy, with the names of the conquered tribes inscribed beneath them. Event: War with the Germans |