Arminius

Arminius
/ahr min"ee euhs/, n.
1. (Hermann) 17? B.C.-A.D. 21, Germanic hero who defeated Roman army A.D. 9.
2. Jacobus /jeuh koh"beuhs/, (Jacob Harmensen), 1560-1609, Dutch Protestant theologian.

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▪ German leader
born 18 BC?
died AD 19
 German tribal leader who inflicted a major defeat on Rome by destroying three legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus (Varus, Publius Quinctilius) in the Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburg Forest, Battle of the) (southeast of modern Bielefeld, Ger.), late in the summer of AD 9. This defeat severely checked the emperor Augustus' plans, the exact nature of which is uncertain, for the country between the Rhine and Elbe rivers.

      Arminius was a chief of the Cherusci. In the service of the Romans he had obtained both citizenship and equestrian rank. Six years after the Teutoburg Forest Massacre, Germanicus Caesar engaged Arminius in battle, capturing his wife, Thusnelda, but in AD 16 Arminius skillfully survived a full-scale Roman attack. When Roman operations were suspended in 17, Arminius became involved in war with Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, and though successful he was subsequently murdered by his own people. The conception of Arminius as a German national hero reached its climax in the late 19th century. It could claim support from Tacitus' judgment of him as “unquestionably the liberator of Germany” (liberator haud dubie Germaniae); but it is clear that in Arminius' day a united “Germany” was not even an ideal.

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