. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Trajans Column. (From a photograph.) 358 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. Ctesiphon the fleet floated down the Tigris and on into thePersian Gulf. Here the sight of an Indian merchantmanis said to have awakened in Trajan ambitious longings toemulate the achievements of Alexander the Great. WereI yet young, he exclaimed, I would not stop till I hadreached the limits of the Macedonian conquest. Out of the territories he had conquered, Trajan made. Battle Scene from Trajans Column. (On the left, Parthian horsemen in armor, fleeing before R
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Trajans Column. (From a photograph.) 358 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. Ctesiphon the fleet floated down the Tigris and on into thePersian Gulf. Here the sight of an Indian merchantmanis said to have awakened in Trajan ambitious longings toemulate the achievements of Alexander the Great. WereI yet young, he exclaimed, I would not stop till I hadreached the limits of the Macedonian conquest. Out of the territories he had conquered, Trajan made. Battle Scene from Trajans Column. (On the left, Parthian horsemen in armor, fleeing before Roman riders.) three new provinces, which bore the ancient names ofArmenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria. To Trajan belongs the distinction of having extendedthe boundaries of the empire to the most distant pointsto which Roman ambition and prowess were ever able topush them. But in passing beyond the line of the Euphra-tes, Trajan had overstepped the limits of moderation, andunwisely disregarded the maxim of Augustus. His con-quests in these regions were prudently abandoned by his FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 359 successor. A more permanent acquisition made by Trajanin these eastern regions was Arabia-Petraea, which wasmade a province in the year 106. But Trajan was something more than a mere soldier ;he had a taste for literature. Juvenal, Plutarch, and theyounger Pliny wrote under his patronage, and under hisdirection was founded the so-called Ulpian Library, whichgrew into one of the m
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