" These words inflamed them: at one charge they
broke the enemy, drove them out of the wood, and slaughtered them in the
plain. In the meanwhile, the front passed the forest, and fortified the
camp: the rest of the march was uninterrupted; and the soldiers, trusting
to the merit of their late exploits, and forgetting at once past faults
and terrors, were placed in winter quarters.
The tidings of these exploits affected Tiberius with gladness and anguish:
he rejoiced that the sedition was suppressed; but that Germanicus had, by
discharging the veterans, by shortening the term of service to the rest,
and by largesses to all, gained the hearts of the army, as well as earned
high glory in war, proved to the Emperor matter of torture. To the Senate,
however, he reported the detail of his feats, and upon his valour bestowed
copious praises, but in words too pompous and ornamental to be believed
dictated by his heart. It was with more brevity that he commended Drusus,
and his address in quelling the sedition of Illyricum, but more cordially
withal, and in language altogether sincere; and even to the Pannonian
legions he extended all the concessions made by Germanicus to his own.
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