History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . meets in descending the Danube is that which was builtbetween Buda and Pesth thirty or forty years ago. ^ . . Montis etfuvii anfractibus superatis, viam patefecit ; several words being partlyeffaced, Mommsen reads the last part of the inscription thus : montibus , amnibmsuperatis, viam fecit {, vol. iii. No. 1,699). The road cut in the cliff still exists. Indescending the Danube one follows it for several miles. From the middle of the river itappears like a line drawn on the side of the
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . meets in descending the Danube is that which was builtbetween Buda and Pesth thirty or forty years ago. ^ . . Montis etfuvii anfractibus superatis, viam patefecit ; several words being partlyeffaced, Mommsen reads the last part of the inscription thus : montibus , amnibmsuperatis, viam fecit {, vol. iii. No. 1,699). The road cut in the cliff still exists. Indescending the Danube one follows it for several miles. From the middle of the river itappears like a line drawn on the side of the mountaiïi : it is. in fact, but a groove made, a fewfeet above the deep waters, only five feet wide at the base. Its width was, however, doubledby a wooden platform which projected over the water. There are also to be seen, on the rightbank of the Alouta, remains of a Roman road which the Wallachians call Calea Trajaiuihii. ?56 THE ANTOXIXES, 96 TO 180 the border of the great river which protected their Empire oyeran extent of 000 leagues, and, as has frequently been the case,. Traiaus Road at >\l>USMAH[^;. the work of several generations has been placed to the account ofthe prince who had left upon this frontier the most glorious memory.^ Near the Servian village of Horum. opposite Kozlamare, in the province of Banat, onereads an inscription on a cliff of the right bank of the Danube, belonging to the year 33 or 34, NERVA AND TKAJAX, 90 TO 117 757 The importance of the military preparations corresponded tothe greatness of the works undertaken to furnish to the army asolid base of operations. From Vienna, at the foot of the Kahlen-berg, to Troesmis, in Dobrutcha, eight legions guarded the countryof the Pannonians and Mœsia. Five left their cantonments andwere united, in the year 101, on the borders of the Save, whichcarried the heavy baggage down to the Danube, near the placeswe have just described, towards Yiminacium (Costolatz). Trajancame and joine
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