Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . SOLDIERS AND SAILORS man of great ambition, had by treachery or by open fighting, made himself masterof several neighboring tribes. Hermann began to fear his designs, and after thedefeat of Varus, warned him of his peril by sending him the Roman generalshead. When Germanicus finally left the country, Hermann declared war againstMaroboduus, and, being joined by the Semnones and Longobards, defeated himon the borders of the Hercynian forest, broke
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . SOLDIERS AND SAILORS man of great ambition, had by treachery or by open fighting, made himself masterof several neighboring tribes. Hermann began to fear his designs, and after thedefeat of Varus, warned him of his peril by sending him the Roman generalshead. When Germanicus finally left the country, Hermann declared war againstMaroboduus, and, being joined by the Semnones and Longobards, defeated himon the borders of the Hercynian forest, broke up his kingdom, and drove himfrom Germany. The fugitive applied to Rome for assistance. Tiberius thensent his son Drusus into the Illyricum ; but the Romans did not advance beyondthe Danube, and Hermann remained unmolested in Northern Germany. Shortlyafter, however, Hermann was killed by his own relatives, being accused, as itwould seem, of aspiring to absolute dominion. He»died at the age of thirty-seven, in the twenty-first year of our era, after being for twelve years the leaderand champion of Germany. TRAJAN By J. S. REiD, (53-117). T HE Roman Empire reached its greatest ex-tent under Marcus Ulpius Traianus, thefourteenth emperor. Of him it was said that he built the world over, and the Romans them-selves regarded him as the best, and perhaps thegreatest of their emperors. He was a native ofItalica, in Spain. The family to which he be-longed was probably Italian, and not Iberian, byblood. His father began life as a common le-gionary soldier, and fought his way up to the con-sulship and the governorship of Asia. He wasone of the hardest fighters in Judaea under Ves-pasian and Titus; he served, too, against theParthians, and won the highest military distinc-tion open to a subject, the grant of the triumphalinsignia. Thus he acquired a prominent placeamong the brand new patricians created by the Flavians as substitutes for the nobles of old descent who had succumbed to
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