" Maroboduus
was kept at Ravenna, for a check and terror to the Suevians; as if, when
at any time they grew turbulent, he were there in readiness to recover
their subjection: yet in eighteen years he left not Italy, but grew old in
exile there; his renown too became eminently diminished; such was the
price he paid for an over-passionate love of life. The same fate had
Catualda, and no other sanctuary; he was soon after expulsed by the forces
of the Hermundurans led by Vibilius, and being received under the Roman
protection, was conveyed to Forum Julium, a colony in Narbon Gaul. The
barbarians their followers, lest, had they been mixed with the provinces,
they might have disturbed their present quiet, were placed beyond the
Danube, between the rivers Marus and Cusus, and for their king had
assigned them Vannius, by nation a Quadian.
As soon as it was known at Rome, that Artaxias was by Germanicus given to
the Armenians for their king, the fathers decreed to him and Drusus the
lesser triumph: triumphal arches were likewise erected, on each side of
the Temple of Mars the Avenger, supporting the statues of these two
Caesars; and for Tiberius, he was more joyful to have established peace by
policy, than if by battles and victories he had ended the war.
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