I will not revisit all of Germanicus' enemies. Fear does not prevent<hr>
me from naming them, for fear is unknown to me, but I know that you all are familiar with them.<hr>
You understand why they harbored such hate, and today, I observe only the unfortunate<hr>
consequences of this hostility. But how could it be possible to harbor such hatred for Germanicus?<hr>
What had he done in his life to deserve such enemies? Let us take the time to be a fair jury<hr>
and see if he could have merited the torment he endured. First of all, considering any hr>
pride he might have had, no man has ever been more remote from it. The entire world could<hr>
witness that the more he deserved the Empire, the more affection he showed towards<hr>
Tiberius, and the further he strayed from the path that could have led him to the throne. May the gods hear me, he<hr>
should have followed my advice rather than his own sentiments! It was he who insisted on the<hr>
loyalty oath of the Belgians, a nation neighboring Germany. It was he who quelled the<hr>
legion's revolt and who, rather than accepting their offers to follow them anywhere, preferred to<hr>
pierce his own heart with a dagger. This, Romans, is what Germanicus did for<hr>
Tiberius. He intended to die for him. And, ironically, in another way and with different<hr>
feelings, did he not achieve what he wished for? Regardless, let us not dwell on such a<hr>
dismal discourse. Remember that upon his death, Germanicus ordered me to lose some of the pride I felt due to my family's innocence and blood. Let us just say, without<hr>
lying, that one could argue that Germanicus preserved the Empire for Tiberius, as it was he who restored order and discipline after the military revolt in most of the legions, without which emperors cannot wield their power.<hr>
        The chaos was immense, the complaints against Tiberius so unfair, the soldiers' demands so<hr>
insolent, their behavior marked by so much violence that Germanicus had to<hr>
make me leave the camp for fear that I would suffer an offense. However, I did everything possible to not leave him, as fear doesn't have a place in the heart of<hr>
Agrippina, and no human power can oblige her to either stay silent or speak up unless it pleases her and reason dictates it. Germanicus not only quelled the soldiers' rebellion<hr>
but he also ensured that these same soldiers, who no longer recognized a leader, who followed only their whims, who listened only to their fury and took up arms<hr>
solely to oppose the emperor's will, rallied under their standards, regained their ability to reason, obeyed Germanicus' orders, and took up arms<hr>
to passionately follow him into all the dangers he exposed himself to and emerged victorious.<hr>
        It was with these same soldiers that he avenged Varus' defeat, that he reclaimed the eagle of the<hr>
Nineteenth Legion, that he traversed the territories of the Bructeri, that he ravaged everything<hr>
found between the rivers of Amisia and Lippe. Frustrated with only proving his worth through battle, he also displayed his qualifications with his affectionate demeanor. Arriving at the same<hr>
spot where Varus was defeated and where an endless number of whitening bones can still be seen,<hr>
scattered across the plains or piled into large heaps that bear testament to the chronology of the<hr>
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