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Battle in the Germanic Wars
Clades Lolliana
Part of the Germanic Wars
Date16 BC
LocationRhine shores
Result Germanic victory
Belligerents
Sicambri
Usipetes
Tencteri
Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Marcus Lollius
Units involved
Unknown Unknown
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown 1 legionary eagle
Warfare between Romans and Germanic peoples
Cimbrian War (113 BC – 101 BC)

Gallic Wars (58 BC – 57 BC)

Clades Lolliana (16 BC)

Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16)

Marcomannic Wars (166–180) (participating Roman units)

Roman campaigns in Germania during the 230s

Gothic invasion of the Balkans (250–251)

Gothic invasion of the Balkans (254)

Gothic invasion of the Balkans (267–268)

Roman–Alemannic Wars

Gothic War (367–369)

Gothic War (376–382)

Visigothic Wars

Vandalic Wars

Anglo-Saxon Wars

Vandalic War (533–534)

Gothic War (535–554)

The clades Lolliana or Lollian disaster was a battle in 16 BC, when the consul Marcus Lollius was defeated by the Sicambri, Usipetes and Tencteri, Germanic tribes who had crossed the Rhine. This defeat is coupled by the historian Suetonius with the disaster of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

After capturing and crucifying Romans in their own lands, the three Germanic tribes crossed the Rhine and plundered Roman territory. Roman cavalry were ambushed and routed. While pursuing the cavalry, the Germanics came across the Roman governor Lollius and defeated him as well. They captured the eagle of the fifth legion. When Lollius and Augustus began to assemble armies, the Germanics retreated back to their own lands, made peace and gave hostages.

See also

References

  1. Tacitus, The Annals 1.10
  2. Cassius Dio, Roman History 54.20.4-5
  3. Velleius Paterculus 2.97.1

Velleius Paterculus 2.97.1 Cassius Dio 54.20.4-5


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