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The Importance of the Eagles
The battle is near the end of Augustus' life. It's a chopped and changed throughout the long years of his reign. Eventually it passes to Stepson Tiberius, who had been forced to adopt Germanicus. And if you believe Tacitus, Tiberius immediately gets very jealous of him. Just at the point when Germanicus was poised to restore Roman on a sweep across the Rhine, push up to the Elba and undo all the damage,. he's recalled back and sent off to a different command in the east. That does become not without reason a preoccupation of Roman emperors. I mean, later on after Nero's death, there are regional generals who in