. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. n 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 abandon
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. n 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 most valuable collections of books in. Besieging a Dacian City. (From Trajans Column.) Rome. Moreover, as is true of almost all great conquer-ors, Trajan had a perfect passion for building. We havealready mentioned the forum which he laid out and em-bellished, and which bore his name, and noticed also thewonderful marble column commemorating his Dacian vic-tories. And not alone in the capital but also in variousother cities of the empire were to be seen many monumentsof his munificence. Respecting the rapid spread of Christianity at this time,the character of the early professors of the new faith, and 360 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. the light in which they were viewed by the rulers of theRoman world, we have very important evidence in a cer-tain letter written by Pliny the Younger to the emperorin regard to the Christians of Pontus, in Asia Minor, ofwhich remote province Pliny was governor. Pliny speaksof the new creed as a contagious superstition, that hadseiz
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