Marcus moves against the Quadi in 179-180, chasing them westwards, deeper into Greater Germania, where the praetorian prefect Tarutenius Paternus later achieves another decisive victory against them.

The inhabitants of Pannonia have retained their own culture into the second century CE, but Romanization has proceeded rapidly, especially in the west.

Pannonia Superior is the focal point of the Roman wars with the Marcomanni in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who is determined to pass from defense to offense and to an expansionist redrawing of Rome's northern boundaries.

His determination seems to be winning success when, on March 17, 180, he dies at his military headquarters at Vindobona (modern Vienna), having just had time to commend to the regime's chief advisers to his son Commodus, who quickly comes to terms with the Germans.