cavalry which Cerialis had sent forward to Novaesium. These repeated checks, though unimportant in themselves, served to dim the lustre of the recent Roman victory.[447] FOOTNOTES: [416] Round Reims. [417] Chap. 39. [418] His sister was Titus's first wife. [419] Augustus had made it a rule that the _praefectus praetorio_ should come from the equestrian order. [420] The text is here uncertain, and some historians maintain that the third of these legions was not XIII Gemina but VII Claudia (v. Henderson, _Civil War_, &c., p. 291). [421] Great St. Bernard and Mt. Genevre. [422] Little St. Bernard. [423] See iii. 5. [424] i.e. not raised in any one locality. [425] Cp. ii. 22. [426] The Triboci were in Lower Alsace; the Vangiones north of them in the district of Worms; the Caeracates probably to the north again, in the district between Mainz and the Nahe (Nava). [427] Bingen. [428] Chap. 62. [429] Round Metz. [430] See chap. 59. [431] The other detachments of legions IV and XXII. [432] Riol. [433] Hordeonius Flaccus, Vocula, Herennius, and Numisius. [434] Legions I and XVI. [435] They had, as a matter of fact, changed their allegiance no less than six times since the outbreak of the civil war. [436] Ariovistus, king of the Suebi, summoned to aid one Gallic confederacy against another, formed the ambition of conquering Gaul, but was defeated by Julius Caesar near Besancon (Vesontio) in 58 B.C. [437] See chap. 68. [438] Tutor erred. Cerialis had also the Twenty-first from Vindonissa, Felix's auxiliary cohorts, and the troops he had found at Mainz (see chaps. 70 and 71). [439] He suppresses his own defeat at Bingen (chap. 70). [440] The town lay on the right bank of the Moselle; the Roman camp on the left bank between the river and the hills. There was only one bridge. [441] The Sixteenth had its permanent camp at Novaesium, the First at Bonn. Both surrendered at Novaesium (cp. chap. 59). [442] See chaps. 59 and 70. [443] The Frisii occupied part of Friesland; the Chauci lay east of them, between the Ems and Weser. [444] Zuelpich. [445] A small flotilla on guard in the Channel. It probably now transported the Fourteenth and landed them at Boulogne. [446] Cp. chap. 15. [447] The narrative is resumed from this point in v. 14. EVENTS IN ROME AND IN THE EAST