History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . . . Ty c à\t]9tiif. COPTIC tTTiQvjjiia. (Dion, Ixviii. 17). Dierauer {Ge-^ch. Traj., p. 153)combats very justly the motives wliicli Merivale assigns for the expedition of Trajan to theEast, and which the English historian draws chiefly from the fear inspired in this prince bythe Christians, about whom he hardly concerned liiraself. and by the Jews, to whom he gaveno attention. ?* Fragment of a bus-relief of the Arch of Trajan, now in the Arch of Constantine-. XERVA AND TRAJAN, {)() TO 117 825 .Ju


History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . . . Ty c à\t]9tiif. COPTIC tTTiQvjjiia. (Dion, Ixviii. 17). Dierauer {Ge-^ch. Traj., p. 153)combats very justly the motives wliicli Merivale assigns for the expedition of Trajan to theEast, and which the English historian draws chiefly from the fear inspired in this prince bythe Christians, about whom he hardly concerned liiraself. and by the Jews, to whom he gaveno attention. ?* Fragment of a bus-relief of the Arch of Trajan, now in the Arch of Constantine-. XERVA AND TRAJAN, {)() TO 117 825 .Jupiter Kasios some offerings \\liicli Hadrian celebrated in Greekverses. The military events of the years 114-117 are very imperfectlyknown to us, and the chronology of the Parthian campaigns isuncertain. Trajan had first to re-establish discipline in the laxand seditious legions of the Eastern provinces. He applied hiscustomary severity, and everything yielded to this energetic entered on the campaign in the very heart of summer, and


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