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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book XII Chapter 28: Invasion of the Chatti (cont.)[AD 50]
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The column which took the right-hand and the shorter route, inflicted greater loss on the enemy who met them, and ventured on a battle. With much spoil and glory they returned to Mount Taunus where Pomponius was waiting with the legions, to see whether the Chatti in their eagerness for vengeance, would give him a chance of fighting. They however fearing to be hemmed in on one side by the Romans, on the other by the Cherusci, with whom they are perpetually at feud, sent envoys and hostages to Rome. To Pomponius was decreed the honour of a triumph; a mere fraction of his renown with the next generation, with whom his poems constitute his chief glory.

Event: Invasion of the Chatti