The cruelty of the German enemies had torn the almost completely charred corpse of Varus to pieces
«The cruelty of the German enemies had torn the almost completely charred corpse of Varus to pieces
, and his head, once cut off, was taken to Maroboduus, who sent it to Tiberius Caesar, to be buried with honor As the Germans vented their cruelty on Roman prisoners, Caldus Caelius [fallen prisoner], a young man worthy of his family's nobility, performed an extraordinary gesture. Grabbing the chains that kept him tied, he hit them on his head with such violence that he died quickly due to the leakage of copious blood and brains."
, and his head, once cut off, was taken to Maroboduus, who sent it to Tiberius Caesar, to be buried with honor As the Germans vented their cruelty on Roman prisoners, Caldus Caelius [fallen prisoner], a young man worthy of his family's nobility, performed an extraordinary gesture. Grabbing the chains that kept him tied, he hit them on his head with such violence that he died quickly due to the leakage of copious blood and brains."
«Some Roman soldiers had their eyes gouged out, others had their hands cut off, and one had his mouth sewn shut after cutting out his tongue.»
«[Germanicus arrived at the site of the battle, where] in the middle of the field the bones piled up and scattered whitened [...] scattered around [...] human skulls were stuck on the trunks of the trees. In the nearby sacred groves you could see altars on which the Germans had sacrificed the tribunes and the main centurions."
VELLEIO PATERCULOS, ROMAN HISTORY II, 119-20
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