Marius' Adventures Along the Danube

Marius led the legions across the Danube on a punitive campaign in 172 to punish those Germans who continued to resist. The Azigis found themselves considered not an equal power to be dealt with honestly, but a menace in need of extermination. Marius thought enough of the results of his efforts that coins from the next year bore the happy slogan subjugated Germany and he took for himself the title Germanicus.