Segestes

Segestes was a German prince of the tribe of the Cherusker that appears in the ancient tradition in the context of his relationship with Arminius and the Germanic revolt against Rome.

In the year 9 AD he warned the Roman governor Varus before the plans for an uprising, but found no voice and had to unwillingly participate in the uprising. But soon he stood in open battle against Arminius, who had his daughter Thusnelda taken against his will to wife, and was besieged in the year 15 of his tribesmen, but freed by Germanicus again. Segestes delivered his pregnant at that time Thusnelda daughter as prisoners of Germanicus from which she later show in his triumphal procession in Rome. The fate Thusnelda nothing is known; also announced by Tacitus report on the fate of her son Thumelicus, who was born in captivity and raised in Ravenna, is not obtained.

The last thing to report the ancient sources of Segestes, is that he is 17 spectators at the triumph of Germanicus was in the year in which his children Segimundus and Thusnelda and his grandson Thumelicus were brought as prisoners. Germanicus showed him afterwards to a residence " in the old province " (probably Gaul ).

The most comprehensive source passage about Segestes found Tacitus ' Annals, 1, 55-59. More mentions, there are at Paterculus Velleius, Florus and Cassius Dio.