Marcus Lollius, appointed by Augustus as Roman governor of Gaul in 17/16 BCE, is responsible for several legions that guard the Rhine river.

His legions are defeated by Germanic tribes—the Sicambri, Tencteri and Usipetes—who had crossed the Rhine.

The military defeat suffered by Lollius, known as the clades Lolliana, is coupled by Suetonius with the disaster of Publius Quinctilius Varus, but it is disgraceful rather than dangerous.

Augustus dispatches his stepson Tiberius to rectify the situation and to regain the captured standard of the Legio V Macedonica.

The Germanic tribes retire beyond the Rhine on the arrival of Tiberius.

The political and military career of Lollius suffers, and he will never again be appointed as commander of an army, yet he remains on friendly terms with Augustus.