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Excerpt from Germanicus: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Tiberius was as much pleased with the loyalty of Ger manicus as he was distressed at his superior popularity: his success also, immediately after, against the Germans, still more excited the emperor's envy and private disgust - he overthrew the enemy in several battles - subduing many wild and extensive countries, the Angrivaru, the Cherusci, and the Chatti, with other fierce nations beyond the Rhine. Among his other conquests, it was not considered as the least honour able that of recovering the standards that had been taken from the unfortunate Varus, and erecting trophies to the me mory of his own legions in those very wilds in_which the le gions of the former were sl Upon one of the monuments of his victories he placed a modest inscription, mentionin only the people that were conquered, and the army whicg made the conquest, entirely omitting his own name, either willing to avoid envy, or sensible that posterity would avoid the defect.
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