Note 17 — Chapter IV · A New Interpretation

Tacitus, Ann., I, 56: “positoque castello super vestigia paterni praesidii in monte Tauno.” This is probably the same fort which Dio (54, 36, 3) describes as “among the Chatti beside the Rhine”; (cf. Koepp, op. cit., p. 20). The location is generally thought to be not far from Höchst, only a few miles up the Main. A castellum here would merely command the entrance to a road into the interior; it would be no “Zwingburg.”