Stertinius

Family: Roman · Role: Roman officer · First appears: Annals I (17)

Life events

• Germanicus launched a coordinated campaign across German territories with infantry, cavalry, and fleet.(Annals I (17) · 📍 river Amisia)
  • With: Germanicus Caecina Pedo
  • “sent Caecina with forty Roman cohorts to the river Amisia, through the territories of the Bructerans. Pedo the Prefect led the cavalry by the confines of the Frisians: he himself, on the lake, embarked four legions”
• Stertinius routed the Bructerans after they burned their homes and possessions.(Annals I (17) · 📍 territories of the Bructerans)
  • “the Bructerans, setting fire to their effects and dwellings, were routed by Stertinius”
• Stertinius discovered the lost Eagle of the nineteenth legion among the battlefield devastation.(Annals I (17))
  • “As this party were engaged between slaughter and plunder, he found the Eagle of the nineteenth legion lost in the overthrow of Varus.”
• Germanicus dispatched Stertinius against the Angrivarian revolt, which he suppressed through fire and slaughter.(Annals II (1))
  • With: Germanicus
  • “Whilst Germanicus was encamping, he was told of the revolt of the Angrivarians behind him, and thither he despatched a body of horse and light foot, under Stertinius, who with fire and slaughter took vengeance on the perfidious revolters.”
• Flavius and Arminius exchanged reproaches and nearly fought until Stertinius restrained Flavius.(Annals II (2))
  • With: Flavius Arminius
  • “By degrees they fell into reproaches; nor would the interposition of the river have restrained them from blows, had not Stertinius hasted to lay hold on Flavius, full of rage, and calling for his arms and his horse.”
• Germanicus secured the river crossing, sending Stertinius and Aemilius across with the cavalry.(Annals II (2) · 📍 Visurgis)
  • With: Germanicus Aemilius
  • “Germanicus, who thought it became not a General to endanger the legions, till for their passage and security he had placed bridges and guards, made the horse ford over. They were led by Stertinius, and Aemilius, Lieutenant-Colonel of a legion, and these two officers crossed the river in distant places, to divide the foe.”
• Cariovalda fell in battle, while Stertinius and Aemilius rescued the surviving Batavians.(Annals II (2))
  • With: Cariovalda Aemilius
  • “Cariovalda, having long sustained the fury of the enemy, exhorted his men to draw up into platoons, and break through the prevailing host; he himself forced his way into their centre, and fell with his horse under a shower of darts, and many of the principal Batavians round him; the rest were saved by their own bravery, or rescued by the cavalry under Stertinius and Aemilius.”
• Germanicus ordered Stertinius to attack the Cheruscans in the rear with the remaining cavalry.(Annals II (3) · 📍 Idistavisus)
  • With: Germanicus
  • “Germanicus commanded a body of the best horse to charge them in the flank, and Stertinius with the rest to wheel round to attack them in the rear”

Annals I (17)

• employer: Germanicus (Germanicus dispatched Stertinius against the Bructerans.) “but the Bructerans, setting fire to their effects and dwellings, were routed by Stertinius, by Germanicus despatched against them with a band lightly armed.”

Annals II (1)

• employer: Germanicus “Whilst Germanicus was encamping, he was told of the revolt of the Angrivarians behind him, and thither he despatched a body of horse and light foot, under Stertinius, who with fire and slaughter took vengeance on the perfidious revolters.”

Annals II (2)

• employer: Germanicus “Germanicus, who thought it became not a General to endanger the legions, till for their passage and security he had placed bridges and guards, made the horse ford over. They were led by Stertinius, and Aemilius, Lieutenant-Colonel of a legion;”

Annals II (3)

• employer: Germanicus “As the impatient bands of Cheruscans were now perceived descending fiercely from the hills, Germanicus commanded a body of the best horse to charge them in the flank, and Stertinius with the rest to wheel round to attack them in the rear, and promised to be ready to assist them in person.”

Annals II (4)

• employer: Germanicus “He had next commanded Stertinius to carry the war amongst the Angrivarians;”

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