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[299] Chap. 18.
[300] The Bructeri lived between the Lippe and the Upper Ems,
the Tencteri along the eastern bank of the Rhine, between its
tributaries the Ruhr and the Sieg, i.e. opposite Cologne.
[301] i.e. about 12,000 men. The bulk of the Fifth and a
detachment of the Fifteenth had gone to Italy.
[302] i.e. Frisii, Bructeri, Tencteri, &c.
[303] At Mainz.
[304] His other legion was IV Macedonica.
[305] Cp. chap. 20.
[306] Neuss.
[307] He commanded the First legion, which had joined the main
column at Bonn.
[308] Gellep. Some words are lost, perhaps giving the distance
from Novaesium.
[309] See note 282.
[310] At Gelduba.
[311] Cp. iii. 61.
[312] The Menapii lived between the Maas and the Scheldt; the
Morini on the coast in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. They
were a proverb for 'the back of beyond'.
[313] See i. 56, note 106.
[314] Dueren.
[315] i.e. the gate on to the street leading to Head-quarters.
THE RELIEF OF VETERA
Such was the course of events in Germany up to the date of the 31
battle of Cremona.[316] News of this arrived by letter from Antonius
Primus, who enclosed a copy of Caecina's edict,[317] and Alpinius
Montanus,[318] who commanded one of the defeated auxiliary cohorts,
came in person to confess that his party had been beaten.
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