History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . emperor and sent from there to Rome to be thrown to the wild beasts ; this isscarcely probable. We have already remarked the evident intention of tlie compilers of theseActs to furnish a sequel to the last voyage of S. Paul. Cf. Dierauer, p. 169, No. 3. ?* KrtXoj Kdi woniov ÔVTOÇ (cai ^là rovra rtfi Tpaiavip iiiKiinj^iévov {Dion, Ixviii. 21 ). NEKVA AND TRAJAN, 96 TO 117 829 assault which gave to the Komans the left bank. Although thissuccess was not equivalent to the victory of Arbela, it opened
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . emperor and sent from there to Rome to be thrown to the wild beasts ; this isscarcely probable. We have already remarked the evident intention of tlie compilers of theseActs to furnish a sequel to the last voyage of S. Paul. Cf. Dierauer, p. 169, No. 3. ?* KrtXoj Kdi woniov ÔVTOÇ (cai ^là rovra rtfi Tpaiavip iiiKiinj^iévov {Dion, Ixviii. 21 ). NEKVA AND TRAJAN, 96 TO 117 829 assault which gave to the Komans the left bank. Although thissuccess was not equivalent to the victory of Arbela, it opened, asthat did, the road to Babylon, which the Parthians, enfeebled bytheir feuds, did not venture to blockade. Trajan entered it withthe title of Parthicus, whioh his soldiers bestowed upon him, andsacrificed to the manes of Alexander in the palace where the herohad expired. This was-in the year 116. Public opinion was dazzled by these facile triumphs. Everyday the senate learned that new peoples had submitted to his sway ;that kinoes consented to receive their crowns from him : that. Tropliv of Victory (Bas-relief of the Temple of .Murs at Merida). countries bearing the great names of Armenia, Mesopotamia, andAssyria, which recalled those of Ninus, Semiramis, Xerxes, andAlexander, were subjects of his Empire. With the eagerness ofa youthful victor, Trajan hastened to declare the regions traversedby his army to be united for ever to the domain of the Eomanpeople. Already Armenia formed one province: he made twoothers from it—that of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and theEuphrates, at the foot of the Armenian mountains, and that ofAssyria, comprising the eastern valley of the Tigris as far as thechain of the Zagros, which separates it from Media. At the sametime great preparations were completed. An entire fleet broughtdoAvn the Euphrates was dragged to the Tigris, across the isthmuswhich extends between the two rivers, in order to attack b8U THE ANKjMNES, \){j TO 18U
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