Editing Germanicus (section)

====First campaign against the Germanic tribes====
[[File:Limes1.png|thumb|Map of the Lower (Northern) Germanic ''[[Limes (Roman Empire)|limes]]''. Shows the legion camps and forts in Germania Inferior.]]
To satisfy the requisition promised to the legions, Germanicus paid them out of his own pocket. All eight legions were given money, even if they did not demand it. Both the armies of the Lower and Upper Rhine had returned to order. It seemed prudent to satisfy the armies, but Germanicus took it a step further. In a bid to secure the loyalty of his troops, he led them on a raid against the [[Marsi (Germanic)|Marsi]], a Germanic people on the upper [[Ruhr (river)|Ruhr]] river. Germanicus massacred the villages of the Marsi he encountered and pillaged the surrounding territory. On the way back to their winter quarters at [[Castra Vetera]], they pushed successfully through the opposing tribes ([[Bructeri]], [[Tubantes]], and [[Usipetes]]) between the Marsi and the Rhine.<ref>{{harvnb|Attema|Bolhuis|Lanting|Prummel|2010|pp=63–65}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Dando-Collins|2010|p=183}}.</ref>

Back at Rome, Tiberius instituted the ''[[Sodales Augustales]]'', a priesthood of the cult of Augustus, of which Germanicus became a member.<ref>{{harvnb|Rowe|2002|p=89}}.</ref> When news arrived of his raid, Tiberius commemorated his services in the Senate. The Senate, in absence of Germanicus, voted that he should be given a triumph.<ref>{{harvnb|Dando-Collins|2008|p=6}}.</ref> [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' dates the Senate vote of Germanicus' triumph to 1 January AD 15.<ref>{{harvnb|Herbert-Brown|1994|p=205}}.</ref>