TEUTOBERGIENSIS SALTUS
TEUTOBERGIENSIS SALTUS a mountain forest in Western Germany, where in A.D. 9. the Roman legions under Varus suffered the memorable defeat, and where six years later, their unburied remains were found by Drusus. (
Tac. Ann. 1.60.) A general description of the locality without the mention of the name is found ill Dio Cassius (56.20, 21; comp.
Vell. 2.105;
118, foll.).
This locality has in modern times been the subject of much discussion among German antiquaries; but the words of Tacitus seem to imply clearly that he was thinking of the range of hills between the sources of the Lupia and Amasis; that is, the range between
Lippspringe and
Haustenbeck. (Giefers,
De Alisoe Castello deque Varianae Cladis Loco Commentatio, p. 47, foll)
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