 The sources are ambiguous, but imply that at some point he did take the "spolia opima" from a Germanic king, thus becoming the fourth and final Roman to gain this honor.Drusus was returning from his advance to the Elbe when he fell from his horse, lingering on for a month after the accident, by which point Tiberius had joined him.Shortly before his death he wrote a letter to Tiberius complaining about the style in which Augustus ruled.