 The Legionnaire sculpture was interpreted by the critic Salazar as a response to the Hermannsdenkmal, then a recently erected monument in Germany to Arminius, the Germanic general that vanquished the Roman Varro in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.Germanicus was viewed by later historians as Augustus' response to the defeat as well as the loss of the legionary eagles, and called the "Avenger of Varro".One soldier blows a horn, the other raises a flag, and the third inscribes on stone the defeated "Germania"; about them is the booty of war.