Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tsakanin AD 14 da 16, Germanicus ya jagoranci ayyukan azabtarwa a cikin Jamus, ya yi yaƙi da Arminius don yin wasa a yakin da aka yi a Pontes Longi kuma sau biyu ya ci shi (a cewar Tacitus): na farko a yakin Idistaviso
kuma daga baya a yakin Angrivarian Wall. A cikin AD 15, sojojin Rome sun sami damar dawo da ɗayan manyan gaggafa uku da aka rasa a Yaƙin Teutoburg Forest. A cikin AD 16, an sake dawo da gaggafa ta biyu. Tiberius ya ƙi buƙatar Germanicus don ƙaddamar da ƙarin kamfen don AD 17, duk da haka, bayan ya yanke shawarar iyakar da Germania za ta tsaya a kogin Rhine. Maimakon haka, ya ba Germanicus girmamawa na nasara don nasararsa biyu. An dawo da gaggafa ta uku ta Roma a cikin AD 41 ta Publius Gabinius, a ƙarƙashin sarki Claudius. Arminius kuma ya fuskanci hamayya daga surukinsa da wasu shugabannin Jamusawa masu goyon bayan Roma. Dan uwansa Flavus, wanda aka haife shi tare da shi a Roma, ya kasance mai aminci ga Daular Rome kuma ya yi yaƙi a ƙarƙashin Germanicus a kan Arminius a Yaƙin Idistaviso. Da ƙarshen barazanar Romawa, yaƙi ya ɓarke tsakanin Arminius da Marbod, sarkin Marcomanni. Ya ƙare tare da Marbod ya gudu zuwa Ravenna da kuma kariya ta Roma, amma Arminius ya kasa shiga cikin "garkuwar halitta" na Bohemia, kuma yakin ya ƙare a cikin rikici.