Editing Germanicus (section)

===Recall===
[[Image:Carl Theodor von Piloty Thusnelda im Triumphzug des Germanicus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|right|''Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus'', by [[Karl von Piloty]], 1873<ref name="Beard108">{{harvnb|Beard|2007|p=108}}.</ref>]]
At the beginning of AD 17, Germanicus returned to the capital and on 26 May he celebrated a triumph. He had captured a few important prisoners, but Arminius was still at large. And yet, Strabo, who may have been in Rome at the time, in mentioning the name of [[Thusnelda]], the captured pregnant wife of Arminius, draws attention to the fact that her husband, the victor at Teutoburg Forest, had not been captured and the war itself had not been won.[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/teutoburg/thusnelda.html] Nonetheless, this did not take away from the spectacle of his triumph: a near contemporary calendar marks 26 May as the day in "which Germanicus Caesar was borne into the city in triumph", while coins issued under his son Gaius (Caligula) depicted him on a triumphal chariot, with the reverse reading "Standards Recovered. Germans Defeated."<ref>{{harvnb|Beard|2007|pp=107–109}}.</ref>
[[File:Caligula - Münzkabinett, Berlin - 5482995.jpg|thumb|A [[dupondius]] from 37 to 41 CE, showing the Triumph of Germanicus on the obverse, and Germanicus holding an [[Aquila (Roman)|aquila]] on the reverse]]
His triumph included a long procession of captives including the wife of Arminius, Thusnelda, and her three-year-old son, among others of the defeated German tribes.<ref group="note">Captives featured in the triumph include: "Segimuntus, the son of Segestes, the chief of the Cherusci, and his sister, named Thusnelda, the wife of Armenius, who led on the Cherusci when they treacherously attacked Quintilius Varus, and even to this day continues the war; likewise his son Thumelicus, a boy three years old, as also Sesithacus, the son of [[Segimer]]us, chief of the Cherusci, and his wife Rhamis, the daughter of Ucromirus, chief of the Chatti, and Deudorix, the son of Bætorix, the brother of Melon, of the nation of the Sicambri; but Segestes, the father-in-law of Armenius, from the commencement opposed the designs of his son-in-law, and taking advantage of a favorable opportunity, went over to the Roman camp and witnessed the triumphal procession over those who were dearest to him, he being held in honor by the Romans. There was also led in triumph Libes the priest of the Chatti, and many other prisoners of the various vanquished nations, the Cathylci and the Ampsani, the Bructeri, the Usipi, the Cherusci, the Chatti, the Chattuarii, the Landi, the Tubattii." ([[Strabo]], ''Geography'', VII.4.33–38).</ref> The procession displayed replicas of mountains, rivers, and battles; and the war was considered closed.<ref>{{harvnb|Beard|2007|p=167}}.</ref>

Tiberius gave money out to the people of Rome in Germanicus' name, and Germanicus was scheduled to hold the consulship next year with the emperor. As a result, in AD 18, Germanicus was granted the eastern part of the empire, just as [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa|Agrippa]] and Tiberius had received before, when they were successors to the emperor.<ref name="Alston 1998 25" />