A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . oiding new conquests as far asj)0ssible. After the affairs of the East were again brought into tolerableorder, the emperor hastened, toward the close of 117, to theLower Danube, where the Sarmatian Roxolani were making foraysinto the plains of eastern Dacia. The display of force on the Pruthhad its effect, and the Roxolani (Fig. 49) returned to friendly the emperor now received from Rome the alarming news that inhis absence a dangerous conspiracy against his life had been discovered,head
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . oiding new conquests as far asj)0ssible. After the affairs of the East were again brought into tolerableorder, the emperor hastened, toward the close of 117, to theLower Danube, where the Sarmatian Roxolani were making foraysinto the plains of eastern Dacia. The display of force on the Pruthhad its effect, and the Roxolani (Fig. 49) returned to friendly the emperor now received from Rome the alarming news that inhis absence a dangerous conspiracy against his life had been discovered,headed by persons of importance, which was put down by the sum- HADRIANS POPULAR MEASURES. 147 mary measures of the prefects of the guard, who arrested and executedthe ciiief conspirators. This proceeding aroused deep discontent inRome, where men watched the development of the new governmentwith anxiety. In August, 118, Hadrian came to his Palatinepalace. He remitted to the inhahitants of Italy all outstanding debtsto the fiscus running back for a period of sixteen years, and caused. Fi«. 49. — (Jroup of Sarmatian cavalry. From the reliofs on the Cohimn of Trajan,where the Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, are represented as the allies of the cavalry, where both man and horse wear mail, are in flisht before the Romanhorse. One has fallen ; another slips from bis horse fatally wounded ; a third letstly a Parthian shot at his pursuers. (From Fröhner.) the certificates of indebtedness to be burned in Trajans Forum. Theamount of the remission was about $46,000,000. To the people ofthe provinces a considerable part of the back taxes was similarly re-mitted. To the senate Hadrian solemnly declared that the senators ex-ecuted had been put to death without his order. He renewed hispredecessors promise of securit}% and ordered that the confiscatedestates of condenmed criminals should no longer come to the fiscus, but
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