. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. alm and stately figure of Trajan,steering his ship, sacrificing for victory, leading the march orthe charge, haranguing his troops, directing the labour ofengineering, consulting with his officers, or receiving the sub-mission of the foe.* The end of the two wars was that Dacia was annexed andbecame a province of the Empire. Here, as elsewhere, Trajanshowed his contempt of natural frontiers. As a gallant soldierhimself, he believed in the invincibility of the Roman arms, andpreferred to put his trust in legions rather t
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. alm and stately figure of Trajan,steering his ship, sacrificing for victory, leading the march orthe charge, haranguing his troops, directing the labour ofengineering, consulting with his officers, or receiving the sub-mission of the foe.* The end of the two wars was that Dacia was annexed andbecame a province of the Empire. Here, as elsewhere, Trajanshowed his contempt of natural frontiers. As a gallant soldierhimself, he believed in the invincibility of the Roman arms, andpreferred to put his trust in legions rather than in walls. For thishe has been condemned by modern historians, but history is onhis side. More than anything else it was reliance on naturalfrontiers and artificial ramparts, with the consequent loss ofmilitary instincts, which was to be the undoing of the RomanEmpire. On the eastern frontier it was for a long time a game oftug-of-war between Rome and Parthia, the rope being suppliedby the kingdom of Armenia. The Augustan policy of filling * Plates 53, 54, 55, T^ia P m W H W/. WM C/2 ■ (^ D A a n H ^ ^ J -0 ■K ^-^ D t^ O |i^HilH^| Z ^^^^^^^H H ^^^^^^^H Z ^^^^l^^l <
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