The Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus

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H. V. Canter. The Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus

The Defeat of Varus and the German Frontier Policy of Augustus

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Introduction and General View of the Question

Footnote

CHAPTER II. Sources

Footnote

CHAPTER III. Criticism of The Accepted View

Footnote

CHAPTER IV. A New Interpretation

Footnote

APPENDIX

CHAPTER IV, NOTE 16

CHAPTER IV, NOTE 49

Addendum (p. 87)

INDEX

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H. V. Canter, W. A. Oldfather

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[21] Ibid., p. 471.

[22] Niese, Grundriss der röm. Gesch. (4th ed. 1910), p. 299: “Eine Wiedereroberung des Verlorenen ward nicht versucht. Mit Ausnahme der Küstenvölker, Bataver, Friesen, und Chauken, gingen die Eroberungen in Germanien verloren, und an Stelle der Elbe ward der Rhein Grenze.... Das römische Germanien beschränkte sich in Zukunft auf die dem Rhein benachbarten Gegenden”; Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. 1910, p. 2: “And though, on the first attack they [the Germans] seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitudes of fortune.”

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