![]() Both shouting across the river, Flavus insisted that "Even Arminius' wife and child were not treated as enemies" (II.10). In AD 16, prior to a battle on the Weser River (II.16), an argument had broken out between the two. Nor was he later mollified by the assurances of his brother Flavus, who was serving Rome as a mounted scout. As to Arminius, he "was driven frantic by the seizure of his wife and the subjugation to slavery of her unborn child" (I.59). Indeed, early in the spring of AD 15 Germanicus was obliged to rescue Segestes and many of his relatives and dependents when they were besieged by Arminius-including Thusnelda, who her father admitted was there only by force, "though there was more of the husband than the father in that temper which sustained her, unconquered to a tear, without a word of entreaty, her hands clasped tightly in the folds of her robe and her gaze fixed on her heavy womb" (I.57 I.55). ![]() "Thusnelda had been betrothed when she was abducted by Arminius, making "himself the hated son-in-law of a hostile father, and a relationship which cements the affection of friends now stimulated the fury of enemies" (I.55). ![]()
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