Arminius = Hermann

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(German: Hermann; 18/17 BC - AD 21), German tribal leader who inflicted a major defeat on Rome by destroying three legions in the Teutoburg Forest late in the summer of AD 9. The conception of Arminius as a German national hero reached its climax in the late 19th century. It could claim support from Tacitus’ judgment of him as “unquestionably the liberator of Germany”.

Mentioned: {A & R.04.1978} 23 (?)

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