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ARMINIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 576 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARMINIUS , the Latinized See also:

form of the name of See also:HERMANN, or more probably ARMIN (17 B.C.–A.D. 21), the See also:German See also:national See also:hero. He was a son of a certain Segimer, a See also:prince of the tribe of the See also:Cherusci, and in See also:early See also:life served with distinction as an officer in the See also:Roman armies. Returning to his own See also:people he found them chafing under the yoke of the Roman See also:governor, Quintilius Varus; he entertained for them hopes of freedom, and cautiously inducing neighbouring tribes to join his See also:standard, he led the See also:rebellion which See also:broke out in the autumn of A.D. 9. Heavily laden with baggage the troops of Varus were decoyed into the fastnesses of the Teutoburger Wald, and there attacked, the completeness of the See also:barbarian victory being attested by the virtual annihilation of three legions, by the voluntary See also:death of Varus, and by the terror which reigned in See also:Rome when the See also:news of the defeat became known, a terror which found utterance in the See also:emperor's despairing cry: " Varus, give me back my legions! " Then in A.D. 15 Germanicus See also:Caesar led the See also:Romans against Arminius, and captured his wife, Thusnelda. An indecisive See also:battle was fought in the Teutoburger Wald, where Germanicus narrowly escaped the See also:fate of Varus, and in the following See also:year Arminius was defeated. The hero's later years were spent in fighting against Marbod, prince of the See also:Marcomanni, and in disputes with his own people occasioned probably by his See also:desire to found a powerful See also:kingdom. He was murdered in A.D. 21.

In 1875 a See also:

great See also:monument to Arminius was completed. This stands on the Grotenburg See also:mountain near Detmold. See also:Klopstock and other poets have used his exploits as material for dramas. Much discussion has taken See also:place with regard to the exact spot in the Teutoburger Wald where the great battle between Arminius and Varus was fought. There is an immense literature on this subject, and the following may be consulted: T. See also:Mommsen, See also:Die Ortlichkeit der Varusschlacht (1885); E. See also:Meyer, Untersuchungen fiber die Schlacht See also:im Teutoburger Walde (1893); A. Wilms, Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Walde (1899) ; F. Knoke, Das Schlachtfeld im Teutoburger Walde (1899); E. Dunzelmann, Der Schauplatz der Varusschlacht (1889); and P. See also:Hofer, Die Varusschlacht (1888). For more See also:general accounts of Arminius see: See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, edited by H.

See also:

Furneaux (1884—1891); 0. Kemmer, Arminius (1893); F. W. See also:Fischer, Armin and die Romer (189,3); W. Uhl, Das Portrait See also:des Arminius (1898); and F. Knoke, Die Kriegszuge des Germanicus in Deutschland (1887).

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