. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Trajan. (From a statue in the Museum at Naples.) 356 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. refusing to make good the agreement of Domitian withthese tribes to pay them tribute (par. 224). In his second campaign Trajan facilitated his operationsby constructing across the Danube a bridge, some of thepiers of which may still be seen. This expedition resultedin the complete subjugation of the troublesome was now made into a province. Roman emigrantspoured in crowds into the region, great cities sprang up,. Bridge over the Danube, bui
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Trajan. (From a statue in the Museum at Naples.) 356 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. refusing to make good the agreement of Domitian withthese tribes to pay them tribute (par. 224). In his second campaign Trajan facilitated his operationsby constructing across the Danube a bridge, some of thepiers of which may still be seen. This expedition resultedin the complete subjugation of the troublesome was now made into a province. Roman emigrantspoured in crowds into the region, great cities sprang up,. Bridge over the Danube, built by Trajan. (From relief on Trajans Column.) and the arts and culture of Rome took deep and permanentroot. The modern name Roumania is a monument of thisRoman conquest and colonization beyond the Roumanians to-day speak a language that in its mainelements is largely of Latin 2 The Romanic-speaking peoples of Roumania and the neighboringregions number about ten millions. It seems probable that during medi-aeval times there was a large immigration into the present Roumania ofLatin-speaking people from the districts south of the Danube,— Thrace,Macedonia, and Epirus, —which had been pretty thoroughly Romanizedduring the imperial period. FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS A URELIUS. 357 As a permanent memorial of his achievements, theemperor erected, in what came to be known as TrajansForum, a splendid marble shaftcalled Trajans Column. Thegreat pillar is almost as perfectto-day as when reared, eighteencenturies ago. It is one hundredand forty-sev
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