Thumelicus

In May 15 AD, Arminius besieged Segestes at his stronghold, where Thusnelda, then pregnant, was staying.

The Roman commander, Germanicus, a nephew of Emperor Tiberius, broke through the siege and took her prisoner.

Thusnelda and the infant Thumelicus were presented in Rome in the Triumph Germanicus was allowed to celebrate in May 17 AD (but Strabo who may have been in Rome at the times draws attention to the fact that her husband Arminius, the victor at Teutoburg Forest, had not been captured and the war, itself, had not been won).

Tacitus promised to recount his fate "at the proper time" — that is, when his Annals treat the year in question.

But there is no further mention in the extant copy, only Tacitus' earlier comment that Thumelicus "ran into derision".

Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus , by Karl von Piloty , 1873. The infant Thumelicus is depicted standing next to his mother.