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Varus is injured in battle and afterwards commits suicide.

Related Conflict :Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Origin: Germanic Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Publius Quinctilius Varus Origin: Roman Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
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    Level :intersocial
    intrapersonal
    Source :Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 1.61 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Saltus Teutoburgiensis (Teutoburg Forest)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 1
    Year :A.D. 9
     
    Context :battle
    suicide
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    other
     
    Original Text :primum ubi vulnus Varo adactum, ubi infelici dextera et suo ictu mortem invenerit;
     
    Translation :where Varus was pierced by his first wound, where too by the stroke of his own ill-starred hand he found for himself death.
     
    Edition :Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.

    Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
     
     
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    Created at :2024-02-24 : 09:32:49
    Last changed :2024-02-29 : 10:25:09
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00014144
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