Germanicus (lived 15 BC–AD 19)

Germanicus was the son of Drusus the Elder, adopted by Tiberius on Augustus’s orders in AD 4. In AD 14–⁠16 he commanded in Germania. Tacitus describes how in AD 16 he recovered one of the eagles of Varus’s legions.

In AD 14, when the legions on the Rhine mutinied, the soldiers urged him to seize power. According to Tacitus he refused. Tiberius later recalled him and sent him to the East.

He died in Antioch in AD 19, not yet 34 years old. He suspected that the governor of Syria, Gnaeus Piso, had poisoned him. Tacitus reports the accusation but does not confirm it himself. Today it is a suspicion, not proof. His wife was Agrippina the Elder, and his son was Caligula.