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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Importance of Victory

The reaction in Rome is horror. You've got Augustus' reaction as you describe, giving me back my legions and banging these heads against the doorposts,. Roman imperialism wasn't used to losing. As far as the Romans are concerned, God, the divinities are on their side. They're destined to rule the entire planet. That's why emperors have orbs as one of their insignia. The orb is the planet. So this is not something that can happen. How do I mean his benefit from his victory? Well, in the big picture he achieved his aim. He pushed the Romans out of his part of Germany. But he personally didn't benefit terribly much from this.

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