A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . a; and on the Lower Rhine the Usipetes,Tencteri, and Sugambri made a foray far into the Belgian country, anddefeated the legate, M. LoUius Paullinus. The Pannonians and theAlpine peoples were at once driven back; and Augustus himself has-tened to Gaul with his stepson Tiberius. At his approach the Sugam-bri retreated over the Rhine, and hastened to make peace. Engagedin the pressing task of quieting the Celts, who were exasperated by theextortions of his procurator Licinus, Augustus remained three years in
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . a; and on the Lower Rhine the Usipetes,Tencteri, and Sugambri made a foray far into the Belgian country, anddefeated the legate, M. LoUius Paullinus. The Pannonians and theAlpine peoples were at once driven back; and Augustus himself has-tened to Gaul with his stepson Tiberius. At his approach the Sugam-bri retreated over the Rhine, and hastened to make peace. Engagedin the pressing task of quieting the Celts, who were exasperated by theextortions of his procurator Licinus, Augustus remained three years inLugdunum, and planned a great undertaking against the peoples on thenorthern border. The Alpine tribes were to be subdued once for all,and the Danube in its whole length made the boundary of the chief burden of this task was to fall upon the two ambitious step-sons of the emperor, — Tiberius, who had already shown talent as ad-ministrator and officer, and Drusus, the amiable and brilliant favoriteof Augustus. The first attack was made simultaneously upon the Rhaetians and. THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY. 55 Vindelicians. The former dwelt in the Alps, between the St. Gotthardand the Upper Inn valley; the latter, of Celtic origin, occupied thedistrict north of Lake Constance to the Upper Danube, as far east asthe Lower Inn. In the summer of 15 Drusus advanced up theAdige, defeated a part of the Rhaeti at Trent, at the foot of the Alps,and crossed the Brenner. Tiberius, from the west, reached the lake ofConstance, defeated the Vindelici in a naval engagement near Reich-enau, and after routing the Brigantii east of the lake, made connec-tions with the army of his brother. The princes divided their armiesinto columns, which put down all opposition. One division pushedinto Noricum, and subjugated this land; and, by the end of the summer,the Romans were masters of the Alps. Rhaetia and Vindelicia weredepopulated to assure the speedy Romanizing of the country. Theable-bodied yo
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