History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Uecebalus conqupi-ed by Trajan (British Museum). news of this noble act of devotion heightened the ardour of theRomans ; the most difficult obstacles were surmounted, and the enemy,Aanquished at every encounter, was dislodged from every ended his career bravely : at the taking of his lastfortress he threw himself upon his sword and his chiefs put them-selves to death after him. He had buried his treasure in the bedof the river, the couise of which had been turned aside, and put th
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Uecebalus conqupi-ed by Trajan (British Museum). news of this noble act of devotion heightened the ardour of theRomans ; the most difficult obstacles were surmounted, and the enemy,Aanquished at every encounter, was dislodged from every ended his career bravely : at the taking of his lastfortress he threw himself upon his sword and his chiefs put them-selves to death after him. He had buried his treasure in the bedof the river, the couise of which had been turned aside, and put the cohimn, had given to the bridge of which he was the engineer. (Official report of M. , president of the European Technical Commission for the Construction of a Bridgeover the Danube : December, 1879.) ^ 3,.570 Grecian feet, (Dion, Ixviii. 1?>.) It appears that Apollodorus constructed auartificial island on a shallow in the middle of the river. (Tzetzes, Chiliades, ii. v. 67 sq.) - Description of the British M^useiim, vul. iii. pi. 6. VOL. IV. DDD. 702 THE ANTOXINES, 96 TO 180 to death the ca])tives wlio had heeii euiployed in that work ; ^ oneof his intimates revealed the secret. Tliis was towards the end ofthe year lOG. Still another hrave people, whieli, after a desperateresistance, has disappeared from history ; hut it is not utterly dead :Dacian blood yet remains in the inhabitants of Eoumania. The conquest had been achieved. To render it durable Trajansvunmoned into the region comprised between the Temes and theAlouta (Ikmat, Transylvania, and Little AVallachia), settlers drawnfrom all the provinces of the Empire - and veterans from all thelegions. He there organized two powerfulcolonies: Vlpiti TiuLJdnn at ^ in thecentre of the country, the better to keep itunder restraint, and T-s/enx^, in the vicinity ofthe great bridge, that his legions might alwayshave fre(^ entry into the province. He foundedtwo others on the right bank of the Danub
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