only tell emphatically how great was the awe which ns felt of the prowess of the Germans, if their variou ld be brought to unite for a common purpose,† but a eal how weakened and debased the population of It ome. Dion Cassius says (lib. lvi., sec. 23), “Then A en he heard the calamity of Varus, rent his garment, great affliction for the troops he had lost, and for te cting the Germans and the Gauls. And his chie s, that he expected them to push on against Italy and there remained no Roman youth fit for military d re worth speaking of, and the allied populations, that serviceable, had been wasted away. Yet he prepared ergency as well as his means allowed; and when non zens of military age were willing to enlist, he made th , and punished by confiscation of goods and disfranch ery fifth man among those under thirty-five, and eve n of those above that age. At last, when he found en thus could he make many come forward, he put em to death. So he made a conscription of discharge sand of emancipated slaves, and, collecting as large

"Lucis propinquis barbaræ aræ, apud quas tribunos ac prim um centuriones mactaverant."-TACITUS, Ann., lib. i., c. 61. It is clear that the Romans followed the policy of fomentin ns and wars of the Germans among themselves. See the th tion of the "Germania" of Tacitus, where he mentions the n of the Bructeri by the neighboring tribes: "Favore quodam orum: nam ne spectaculo quidem prælii invidere: super lx. n nis telisque Romanis, sed quod magnificentius est, oblectatio e ceciderunt. Maneat quæso, duretque gentibus, si non amor rte odium sui: quando urgentibus imperii fatis, nihil jam præ na majus potest quam hostium discordiam."

on fire. Many comets blazed forth , shaped like spears, had shot from sky down into the Roman camps. ue of Victory, which had stood at a ng the way toward Germany, had, nd, and now pointed to Italy. These elieved by the multitude to accom's legions, and to manifest the anger Augustus himself was not free from casion no supernatural terrors were n and grief that he felt, and which the news of the battle had arrived, the wall, and exclaim, “Quintilius ons." We learn this from his biogeed, every ancient writer who alVarus attests the importance of the wer, and the bitterness with which

rsue their victory beyond their own ecured at once and forever the indece. Rome sent, indeed, her legions ade a temporary superiority,, but all ts were abandoned by Augustus and

s had struck never was forgotten. under the specious title of moderathe acknowledged boundary of the most pithily: "Hâc clade factum est ut non steterat, in ripâ Rheni fluminis sta

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aship with Arminius than can be claimed by any Ger dern Germany. The proof of this depends on the p r facts: first, that the Cheruscans were Old Saxons, of the interior of Germany; secondly, that the AngloSaxons of the coast of Germany, were more closely ak er German tribes were to the Cheruscan Saxons; t the Old Saxons were almost exterminated by Charler rthly, that the Anglo-Saxons are our immediate an e last of these may be assumed as an axiom in Engl y. The proofs of the other three are partly philologi tly historical. I have not space to go into them he y will be found in the early chapters of the great worl nd, Dr. Robert Gordon Latham, on the "English Lang in the notes to his forthcoming edition of the "Germ citus." It may be, however, here remarked, that the xons of Germany are of the High Germanic division rman race, whereas both the Anglo-Saxon and Old re of the Low Germanic.

Being thus the nearest heirs of the glory of Arminius, ly devote more attention to his career than, in such the present, could be allowed to any individual leade s interesting to trace how far his fame survived dur ddle Ages, both among the Germans of the Contine ong ourselves.

It seems probable that the jealousy with which Marobod g of the Suevi and Marcomanni, regarded Arminius, and imately broke out into open hostilities between those Des and the Cherusci, prevented Arminius from lead federate Germans to attack Italy after his first victory

untry suelense.

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w, Segestes, had broken out afresh. of the Roman general, Germanihimself; and by his contrivance, fe of Arminius, also came into the r advanced in pregnancy. She ore of the spirit of her husband could not be subdued into tears to Ravenna, and there gave birth om an allusion in Tacitus, to have at the part of the great historian's has perished, and we only know on of Arminius was, at the age of amphal pageant along the streets

was goaded almost into phrensy te of his wife, thus torn from him, age even before its birth, inflamed which he roused his countrymen against their invaders, who thus dren. Germanicus had marched arus had perished, and had there y relics of his predecessor's legions im.† Arminius lured him to ad›untry, and then assailed him, and Roman accounts, was a drawn

iquities at Bonn there is a Roman seon which records that it was erected ell "Bello Variano."

German chief, who i camp, instead of wait ties of the country, an In the following ye year afterward Germa army on shipboard, a he disembarked, and n probably in the neighl ed his army on the oth which is powerfully to a beautiful poem by P the brother of Arminiu young to serve in the not only refused to qu try, but fought agains cus. He had assum gained considerable d he had lost an eye fr outposts approached them from the oppos brother. Flavius ste followers to retire, a moved from the Rom the brothers, who ap years, began a conver in which Arminius his eye, and what b he had received for was lost, and mention of its loss, and show

o, instead of waiting till they were entangled in the d of the country, and assailing their columns on the ma the following year the Romans were inactive, but afterward Germanicus led a fresh invasion. He pla von shipboard, and sailed to the mouth of the Ems, sembarked, and marched to the Weser, where he enca ably in the neighborhood of Minden. Arminius had is army on the other side of the river; and a scene oc h is powerfully told by Tacitus, and which is the sub autiful poem by Praed. It has been already mention brother of Arminius, like himself, had been trained up g to serve in the Roman armies; but, unlike Armin only refused to quit the Roman service for that of his but fought against his country with the legions of Ge He had assumed the Roman name of Flavius, ar ed considerable distinction in the Roman service, in ad lost an eye from a wound in battle. When the 1 osts approached the River Weser, Arminius called a from the opposite bank, and expressed a wish to her. Flavius stepped forward, and Arminius ordered h wers to retire, and requested that the archers should ed from the Roman bank of the river. This was done brothers, who apparently had not seen each other for s, began a conversation from the opposite sides of the s hich Arminius questioned his brother respecting the eye, and what battle it had been lost in, and what ad received for his wound. Flavius told him how t lost, and mentioned the increased pay that he had on a s loss, and showed the collar and other military decor