Tiberius and Germanicus launch an operation against the Daesitiatesin the next year.

Bato and the Daesitiates after fierce battles surrender to Tiberius in  September CE 9, only a few days before the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

This is just in time: the Roman high command does not doubt that Arminius and the Cherusci would have formed a grand alliance with the Illyrians.

It has taken the Romans three years of hard fighting to quell the revolt, which is described by the Roman historian Suetonius as the most difficult conflict faced by Rome since the Punic Wars two centuries earlier.

It is alleged that when Tiberius asked Bato and the Daesitiates why they had rebelled, Baton was reputed to have answered: "You Romans are to blame for this; for you send as guardians of your flocks, not dogs or shepherds, but wolves."

Bato will spend the rest of his life in the Italian town of Ravenna.