Re: Where did the Yazigi go ?

> Some leader based in what was then (M.V.'s time) Poland and with a
> past somewhere southeast of Europe was attacked by and repelled
> Roman forces three times while attempting to conquer Bavaria. The
> Roman consul Caesar then gave up (and appointed that leader as a
> friend of Rome), declaring Bavaria to be an area outside of Roman
> interest, earning the enmity of the senate in return; that leader
> then subdued Bavaria. Caesar later saw that leader as a threat to
> Roman interests and attacked him.
>
> That would explain the fishy business of why Ariovistus was
> appointed friend of the Roman people by Caesar.
>
> The mention of a brother-in-law relationship might indicate that
> scraps of the Voccio story were included too in the chronicle.

Or the one that leader fought and defeated three times was Voccio,
who then offered his sister in marriage (after consul Caesar interceded as mediator in the interest of stable borders for Rome?).


Torsten