ABSTRACT
Liciniua Crassus and Claudius were awarded triumphal insignia, Claudius taking what credit he could for a success won mainly in Gaius principate and allowing every possible distinction to the aristocratic thrifty. Suetonius campaign made Claudius the first Roman commander to penetrate the Atlas Mountains and emerge into the Sahara; but his victory was not complete, even if he attained triumphal insignia: he did not annihilate the tribesmen nor capture their leaders. The end of modern colonial regimes, and the contribution of scholars from colonized as well as colonizing nations, has changed perceptions of Roman imperialism, in Mauretania as elsewhere. Movement among the German tribes in the forties and fities, especially on the part of Chauci and Chatti, makes the inexpensive Roman control of the Rhine and the tribes that bordered on it look all the more impressive. Romans were aware of the disadvantages of their techniques of destabilization, as the defence of the glacis.
