The troops were then marched to the furthest frontier of the Bructeri, and all the country between the rivers Amisia note and Lupia was ravaged, not far from the forest of Teutoburg where the remains of Varus and his legions were said to lie unburied. Lucius Stertinius was dispatched by Germanicus with a flying column and routed the Bructeri as they were burning their possessions, and amid the carnage and plunder, found the eagle note of the Nineteenth Legion which had been lost with Varus. The Chauci, note on promising aid, were associated with us in military fellowship. Germanicus himself put four legions on shipboard and conveyed them through the lakes, note and the infantry, cavalry, and fleet met simultaneously at the river already mentioned. That the war might not burst in all its fury on one point, Germanicus sent Caecina note through the Bructeri to the river Amisia note with forty Roman cohorts to distract the enemy, while the cavalry was led by its commander Pedo note by the territories of the Frisians.

Tacitus on the Battle in the Teutoburg Forest Section 1.60-62 of his Annals are translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. In fact, the soldiers must have marched to the east. For artistic reasons, he presents Germanicus' army as following in the footsteps of Varus, i.e., moving from east to west. The story is told by the Roman historian Tacitus. This forced Germanicus to invade Germania again. Late in 14, the Roman prince Germanicus resumed the offensive, which provoked a reaction from the Germanic leader Arminius, who was able to unite several tribes.

After the battle in the Teutoburg Forest, the Roman commander Tiberius led several retaliatory campaigns, but he understood that the country beyond the Rhine could not be occupied and stopped the war.

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