> Lewis & Short have "indignation, wrath, animosity, anger, resentment"
> as one of the meanings of <dolor>, with plenty of classical examples.
Live and learn. I still think Caesar would have mentioned it if Ariovistus had perished with his wife.
****GK: No one is claiming that Ariovistus perished "with his wife". He obviously managed to find a boat and cross the Rhine. She didn't. What happened to him afterwards is speculative. He may have been killed later with other fleeing Suebi . All we really know is that he was dead by 54 BCE and that some Germanics were rather unhappy about that. As long as one is speculating here's another "theory". There is no proof for it, but it's certainly more solid than the notion that Ariovistus became a priest etc...
He fled, but he was still dangerous (as were the Suebi). He would have wanted revenge. Could Caesar have sent an assassin to"get him"? From amongst some of the Germani who didn't care for this warlord? (I still prefer the view he was killed in 58 "en route" to his early haunts.) *****