. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. that time in the legionsof Tiberius. While this work was going forward in the North between theEhine and Elbe, a greatbarbaric kingdom wasrising in the South verynear the Roman out-posts. One of the Mar-comanni, Maioboduus,who had been attractedto Rome like so manyother Germans, had beenmuch impressed withthat skilful organizationwhere all things wereso admirably disposedto secure power. Hehad profited by thelesson : and, returninghome with the authorityof a man who had seengreat things and canalso a
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. that time in the legionsof Tiberius. While this work was going forward in the North between theEhine and Elbe, a greatbarbaric kingdom wasrising in the South verynear the Roman out-posts. One of the Mar-comanni, Maioboduus,who had been attractedto Rome like so manyother Germans, had beenmuch impressed withthat skilful organizationwhere all things wereso admirably disposedto secure power. Hehad profited by thelesson : and, returninghome with the authorityof a man who had seengreat things and canalso accomplish them,he seized the his peoplefrom the banks of theMein, where he had suf-fered a defeat, he estab-lished them in Bohemia,— a fortress, with itsrampart of mountains, in the heart of the Barbarian woild. TheElbe, breaking its way through on the North, opened to him agate in the direction of those countries where the legions had justestablished themselves ; while from the tops of mountains descend-ing to the waters of the Danube he could hear the war-cry of the. THE YOUNG TIBERIUS IN MILITARY COSTUME(museum of TURIN). 262 AUGUSTUS, OK THE FOUNDATION OF THE E:\rPIEE. Pannoniaus and Ijehold the icy peaks of the Alps. Against hisown people, who had proclaimed him king, Maroboduus had sur-rounded himself with a guard and had built for his residence astrong citadel. Marobndum (Budweis ?) ; and against the neighbor-ing tribes he had, aided b} numerous deserters from the Romanarmy, disciplined seventy thousand foot soldiers and four thousandcavalry, whom he exercised in continual engagements. Nearly allthe Suevi had gathered around this chief who had so gloriouslyrevived their ancient renown, and the Senones, and even the Lom-bards, recognized his supremacy. Augustus was alarmed at this power, which Tiberius openlyin the Senate declared more threatening to Rome than eitherPjTrhus or Antiochus had been, and he resolved to crush it beforeit reached its heigh
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