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2 unusual facts about Marcomannic Wars


Marcomannic Wars

Several authors, like Marcus Aurelius' biographer Frank McLynn, accepting the date of defeat near Carnuntum as 170, place the great Germanic invasion itself three years earlier.

Nevertheless, operations continued against the Iazyges, the Buri and the so-called "free Dacians" living between the Danube and Roman Dacia.


Arch of Constantine

Together with three panels now in the Capitoline Museum, the reliefs were probably taken from a triumphal monument commemorating Marcus Aurelius' war against the Marcomanni and the Sarmatians from 169 – 175, which ended with his triumphant return in 176.

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

Pollio was deputy to Lucius Verus’ co-Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the Marcomannic Wars, where he died during the conflict.


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