Instantly two parties were despatched; one to face the enemy and provoke
them from their post; the other to beset their rear and dig up the Eagle;
and success attended both. Hence Germanicus advanced with great alacrity,
laid waste the country, and smote the foe, either not daring to engage,
or, wherever they engaged, suddenly defeated. Nor, as we learnt from the
prisoners, were they ever seized with greater dismay: "The Romans," they
cried, "are invincible: no calamities can subdue them: they have wrecked
their fleet; their arms are lost; our shores are covered with the bodies
of their horses and men; and yet they attack us with their usual ferocity,
with the same firmness, and with numbers as it were increased."
The army was from thence led back into winter quarters, full of joy to
have balanced, by this prosperous expedition, their late misfortune at
sea; and by the bounty of Germanicus, their joy was heightened, since to
each sufferer he caused to be paid as much as each declared he had lost;
neither was it doubted but the enemy were humbled, and concerting measures
for obtaining peace, and that the next summer would terminate the war.
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