Note 100 — Chapter III · Criticism of The Accepted View

The same statement is made by other historians, e. g., Merivale, General Hist. of Rome, New York, 1876, p. 431; Bury (Hist. of the Roman Empire, New York, 1893, p. 125), who speaks of “The project of extending the empire to the Albis, into which perhaps the cautious emperor was persuaded by the ardor of his favorite stepson, Drusus.” Cf. Mommsen, Germanische Politik, etc., p. 10: “Ob Augustus ganz von freien Stücken sich dazu entschloss, die Friedenspolitik zu verlassen, oder ob er dem Drängen der Seinigen [Agrippa, Tiberius, and Drusus] nachgab, die Niederlage des Lollius gab den Ausschlag.”