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| Other sources add these items to the events: Varus showed more courage in his suicide than he did in battle. Another officer gave an inglorious example that he capitulated, resulting in certain death. Finally, a third acted as a simple coward, because he took flight with the horsemen and left those still struggling for their lives to their fates. Those who escaped the carnage and fell into the hands of the Germans, could expect terrible torture and a gruesome death: “One may cut out the eyes, while another may hack off the hands; still another might sew up the mouth, after having cut out the tongue. The tongue might be held in the hand as if to say: ‘Finally has the snake ceased his hissing.’” From the mutilated corpse of Varus, the head was chopped off. Arminius had the head taken to Marbod as a sign of his triumph. The Markoman king, cautious even in this situation, send the head of Varus to Augustus in Rome, where it was entombed in the graveyard of his family. |
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