A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . d already conquered, and his munitions of war, to raze hisfortresses, to send back all prisoners and all Romans in his service, andnever to employ Romans again. The Dacian kingdom tlius became aRoman client state. Trajan celebrated his splendid triumph in Rome ;but Decebalus had no thought of carrying out the hard conditions,and made alliance with the Parthian court. Thereupon Trajan deter-mined to make Dacia a Roman province. He united Moesia with theleft bank of the Danube by a permanent bridge, w^iich w
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . d already conquered, and his munitions of war, to raze hisfortresses, to send back all prisoners and all Romans in his service, andnever to employ Romans again. The Dacian kingdom tlius became aRoman client state. Trajan celebrated his splendid triumph in Rome ;but Decebalus had no thought of carrying out the hard conditions,and made alliance with the Parthian court. Thereupon Trajan deter-mined to make Dacia a Roman province. He united Moesia with theleft bank of the Danube by a permanent bridge, w^iich was protectedby towers at each end. It was built in eighteen months by Apollodo-nis of Damascus, between Turnu-Severinu and Kladova. It rested on In Domitians time Moesia was divided into two provinces. Upper Moesia (nowServiai, west of the river Ciabrus; and Lower Moesia, east of the same river. Each hadits own legate. 136 THE GOLDEK AGE OF THE EMPIRE. twenty immense stone piers, 150 feet high and 60 feet wide, of whichthe ruins are still visible ; its length was 3570 Roman feet; the. arches, with a span of 110 feet, were of wood. Trajan, accompanied byHadrian, began the campaign against Dacia in 105. The struggle PLATE VIII.
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