GERMANICUS cmsAg, Roman general; b. 15 a.c.; d. Epidaptinx, near Antioch,. 9, Oct. 19 A.P. He was the son of Nero ,Claudius Annus, and of Antonia, daughter pf Mark Antony and niece of Augustus. By desire, o4 Augustus. he was adopted in the year 4 A,to. by Tiberius, •whoni, he accompanied in the waf agoinst the Panngniaz*, Dalmatians and Ger, mous. In the year 12 he was consul, and next year was appointed to the command of,' the eight legions on the Rhine.; He was at Lug, dun tim Batavorum when news.c,ame of the death of the Emperpr Augustus and of the mutiny ,for more pgy and shorter service among' the soldiers, in Germany and Illyricum. Ger, inanicus hastened to the camp and quelled the tumult by his personal, poPularitY; and at once led his soldiers 'against the enemy- Crossing the Rhine, below Wesel, he .attacked and routed the and next ,marched to meet the redoubtable Armimus (q.v..),, the conqueror of Varus and his legionaries, whose hones had lain unburied for six years in the Teutaburg Forest. With solemn rites his soldiers buried these sad relics of :disaster, then • advanced against the, foe, who,. retiring into a difficult
country, managed to save himself, and was not subdued till the year when Germanicus again, carried, a part of his army up the Erns in ships, crossed to the Weser and completely overthrew. A,rininir in desperate battles. Tiberius, jealous .o the glory and of Germanicus, recalled him from Germany in the i year 17, and sent him to settle affairs in the at the same time appointing as viceroy of Syria, in order secretly to counteract hint, the haughty and envious Gnus Calpurnius Pisces Germanicus died, probably by poison adminis tered at the instigation of Tiberius. His wife, Agrippina, and two of her sons were ,put to death by order of Tiberius; the third son, Caligula, was spared. Of the three daughters who survived their father, .Agrippina was as noted for vice as her mother for virtue. His literary remains were first published at Bologna in 1474.