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Ar⋅min⋅i⋅us

  [ahr-min-ee-uhs]
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1. (Hermann) 17? b.c.–a.d. 21, Germanic hero who defeated Roman army a.d. 9.
2. Ja⋅co⋅bus  [juh-koh-buhs] , (Jacob Harmensen), 1560–1609, Dutch Protestant theologian.
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Ar·min·i·us   (är-mĭn'ē-əs)   
German hero who led the defeat of three legions of Romans in the Teutoburger Wald (A.D. 9), thereby liberating the Germans from Roman rule.
Arminius, Jacobus 1560-1609.  
Dutch theologian and founder of Arminianism, which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and was influential throughout Europe.
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Arminius

German tribal leader who inflicted a major defeat on Rome by destroying three legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Teutoburg Forest (southeast of modern Bielefeld, Ger.), late in the summer of AD 9. This defeat severely checked the emperor Augustus' plans, the exact nature of which is uncertain, for the country between the Rhine and Elbe rivers.

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