blackswaneuroparedux: Quintili Vare, legiones redde**- Augustus **Quintilius Varus, give me back my
blackswaneuroparedux: Quintili Vare, legiones redde**- Augustus **Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.“Quintili Vare, legiones redde“ – “Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions“ – the writer Sueton quotes the Roman emperor Augustus. However, this outcry of desperation no longer reached Varus, who, together with 20,000 Legionnaires had died in the marshes and forests of northern Germania. Three legions, which made up about one eighth of the Roman military at the time, had been defeated and killed by an army of different Teutonic tribes in a three day long battle in the year 9 AD. -- source link