Segestes

Family: German · Role: Germanic leader · First appears: Annals I (16)

Life events

• Arminius carried away Segestes’s daughter, intensifying their hostility.(Annals I (16))
  • With: Arminius
  • “as Arminius had carried away the daughter of Segestes, already betrothed to another”
• Germanicus defeated the besiegers and rescued Segestes with his relations and followers.(Annals I (16))
  • With: Germanicus
  • “Germanicus led back his army to the relief of Segestes, and was rewarded with success. He fought the besiegers, and rescued him”
• Germanicus graciously received the deserter Segestes.(Annals I (17))
  • With: Germanicus
  • “The desertion of Segestes being divulged, with his gracious reception from Germanicus”

Annals I (16)

• enemies with Arminius “Segestes, though by the weight and unanimity of his nation he was forced into the war, yet remained at constant variance with Arminius: a domestic quarrel too heightened their hate, as Arminius had carried away the daughter of Segestes, already betrothed to another; and the same relations, which amongst friends prove bonds of tenderness, were fresh stimulations of wrath to an obnoxious son and an offended father.”
• child: Segimundus “To the other deputies Segestes had added Segimundus, his son;”
• patron: Augustus “from the moment I was by the deified Augustus presented with the freedom of the city, I have continued by your interest to choose my friends, by your interest to denominate my enemies;”
• patron: Germanicus “Germanicus led back his army to the relief of Segestes, and was rewarded with success. He fought the besiegers, and rescued him with a great train of his relations and followers;”

Annals I (17)

• patron: Germanicus (Germanicus graciously received Segestes.) “The desertion of Segestes being divulged, with his gracious reception from Germanicus, affected his countrymen variously; with hope or anguish, as they were prone or averse to the war.”
• enemies with Arminius (Arminius called the Cheruscans to arms against Segestes.) “he flew about amongst the Cheruscans, calling them to arms; to arm against Segestes, to arm against Germanicus.”

Annals I (20)

• definitional with Sigimerus

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.