Der Kapitän: Roman (German Edition)

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And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. New International Version Then the commander said, "I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship. New Living Translation "I am, too," the commander muttered, "and it cost me plenty!

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Berean Literal Bible Then the commander answered, "I bought this citizenship with a great sum. Christian Standard Bible The commander replied, "I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money. Contemporary English Version The commander then said, "I paid a lot of money to become a Roman citizen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible The commander replied, "I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.

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International Standard Version Then the tribune replied, "I paid a lot of money for this citizenship of mine. American Standard Version And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. Wilbers-Rost, a specialist in early German archaeology, peered through wire-rimmed glasses, brushed away some earth, and handed an object to me. Inch by inch, several young archaeologists under her direction are bringing to light a battlefield that was lost for almost 2, years, until an off-duty British Army officer stumbled across it in The sandal nail was a minor discovery, extracted from the soil beneath an overgrown pasture at the base of Kalkriese the word may derive from Old High German for limestone , a foot-high hill in an area where uplands slope down to the north German plain.

But it was further proof that one of the pivotal events in European history took place here: The battle led to the creation of a militarized frontier in the middle of Europe that endured for years, and it created a boundary between Germanic and Latin cultures that lasted 2, years. Benario, emeritus professor of classics at EmoryUniversity, a very different Europe would have emerged. Founded at least according to legend in b.

The Ambush That Changed History

But within a few hundred years, Rome had conquered much of the Italian peninsula, and by b. Various Teutonic tribes lay scattered across a vast wilderness that reached from present-day Holland to Poland. The Romans knew little of this densely forested territory governed by fiercely independent chieftains. They would pay dearly for their ignorance.

There are many reasons, according to ancient historians, that the imperial Roman legate Publius Quinctilius Varus set out so confidently that September in a. He led an estimated 15, seasoned legionnaires from their summer quarters on the WeserRiver, in what is now northwestern Germany, west toward permanent bases near the Rhine. They were planning to investigate reports of an uprising among local tribes. Like his patrons in Rome, Varus thought occupying Germany would be easy. The German frontier held a deep allure for Augustus, who regarded the warring tribes east of the Rhine as little more than savages ripe for conquest.

In time, despite growing resentment of the Roman presence, the tribes exchanged iron, cattle, slaves and foodstuffs for Roman gold and silver coins and luxury goods. Some tribes even pledged allegiance to Rome; German mercenaries served with Roman armies as far away as the present-day Czech Republic.

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One such German soldier of fortune, a year-old prince of the Cherusci tribe, was known to the Romans as Arminius. His tribal name has been lost to history. He spoke Latin and was familiar with Roman tactics, the kind of man the Romans relied on to help their armies penetrate the lands of the barbarians. For his valor on the field of battle, he had been awarded the rank of knight and the honor of Roman citizenship.

On that September day, he and his mounted auxiliaries were deputized to march ahead and rally some of his own tribesmen to help in putting down the rebellion. To achieve his goal, he concocted a brilliant deception: A rival chieftain, Segestes, repeatedly warned Varus that Arminius was a traitor, but Varus ignored him. Arminius had instructed the Romans to make what he had described as a short detour, a one- or two-day march, into the territory of the rebels.

As they progressed, the line of Roman troops—already seven or eight miles long, including local auxiliaries, camp followers and a train of baggage carts pulled by mules—became dangerously extended. Meanwhile, a violent rain and wind came up that separated them still further, while the ground, that had become slippery around the roots and logs, made walking very treacherous for them, and the tops of the trees kept breaking off and falling down, causing much confusion.

The nearest Roman base lay at Haltern, 60 miles to the southwest. So Varus, on the second day, pressed on doggedly in that direction. On the third day, he and his troops were entering a passage between a hill and a huge swamp known as the Great Bog that, in places, was no more than 60 feet wide. As the increasingly chaotic and panicky mass of legionnaires, cavalrymen, mules and carts inched forward, Germans appeared from behind trees and sand-mound barriers, cutting off all possibility of retreat.

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Varus understood that there was no escape. Rather than face certain torture at the hands of the Germans, he chose suicide, falling on his sword as Roman tradition prescribed. Most of his commanders followed suit, leaving their troops leaderless in what had become a killing field.

Only a handful of survivors managed somehow to escape into the forest and make their way to safety. The news they brought home so shocked the Romans that many ascribed it to supernatural causes, claiming a statue of the goddess Victory had ominously reversed direction. They were an informed, dynamic, rapidly changing people, who practiced complex farming, fought in organized military units, and communicated with each other across very great distances.

More than 10 percent of the entire imperial army had been wiped out—the myth of its invincibility shattered. In the wake of the debacle, Roman bases in Germany were hastily abandoned.

Augustus, dreading that Arminius would march on Rome, expelled all Germans and Gauls from the city and put security forces on alert against insurrections. Six years would pass before a Roman army would return to the battle site. The scene the soldiers found was horrific. Heaped across the field at Kalkriese lay the whitening bones of dead men and animals, amid fragments of their shattered weapons.

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Human heads were nailed everywhere to trees. Germanicus, ordered to campaign against the Cherusci, still under the command of Arminius, pursued the tribe deep into Germany.

But the wily chieftain retreated into the forests, until, after a series of bloody but indecisive clashes, Germanicus fell back to the Rhine, defeated. But as his power grew, jealous rivals began to defect from his cause. With the abdication of the Romans from Germany, the Kalkriese battlefield was gradually forgotten.

Even the Roman histories that recorded the debacle were lost, sometime after the fifth century, during the collapse of the empire under the onslaught of barbarian invasions. As a consequence, Arminius was hailed as the first national hero of Germany. At 87 feet high, and mounted on an foot stone base, it was the largest statue in the world until the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in Not surprisingly, the monument became a popular destination for Nazi pilgrimages during the s.

But the actual location of the battle remained a mystery.

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