Res Gestae

Calling to mind these things and adding other salutary advice, they led the emperor to a better opinion, and at once (as was for the advantage of the state) the said king was courteously summoned to the vicinity of Mayence, being himself also inclined (as was evident) to accepting a treaty. And he arrived enormously puffed up in every way, as if he expected to be the supreme arbiter of peace, and on the day set for the conference, with head high uplifted, he stood at the very edge of the Rhine while the clashing shields of his countrymen thundered all about him.

On the other side the Augustus embarked on some river-boats,[*](Perhaps the same as the lusoriae naves of xvii. 2, 3, note; xviii. 2, 12.) himself also hedged by a throng of military officers and conspicuous amid the brilliance of flashing standards, and cautiously[*](Cf. cunctator et tutus, xxvii. 10, 10.) approached the shore. Finally, the savages ceased their immoderate gesticulation and barbaric tumult, and after much had been said and heard on both sides, friendship was confirmed between them[*](Cf. in medio, xviii. 5, 7, quodam medio fetiali. ) by the sanctity of an oath.