History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . nies of Sicum, of Salona, the latter beingthe principal post of the Romans in Illyria, and lastly, differentDalmatian peoples, divided into 924 decuriae. The third containedthree colonies, seven Roman cities, and ten tribes divided into463 This is the first time Pliny mentions these subdivisions, resem-bling those which existed in Thrace and Cappadocia under the nameof strategiae. As this mountainous region with its numberless valleyspossessed few cities, the Romans had further divided thes
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . nies of Sicum, of Salona, the latter beingthe principal post of the Romans in Illyria, and lastly, differentDalmatian peoples, divided into 924 decuriae. The third containedthree colonies, seven Roman cities, and ten tribes divided into463 This is the first time Pliny mentions these subdivisions, resem-bling those which existed in Thrace and Cappadocia under the nameof strategiae. As this mountainous region with its numberless valleyspossessed few cities, the Romans had further divided these turbu-lent tribes into small territorial areas, over each of which a nativechief was placed, who answered with his life for the preservationof order in his district. To watch them and keep them in bounds,also to deprive them of the sight of the sea, which recalled tothese old pirates so many recollections and so many dangenu-temptations, a multitude of colonies and Roman cities were placedalong the coast between them and the Adriatic. 1 Pliny, B ii. 26. 136 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN MOESIA COIN OF Dacia, Moesia, and Thrace. — The administration of Trajan wasmarked by the same greatness and rapidity that characterized hismilitary enterprises. When he had made the Carpathian Mountainsthe frontier of the Empire he clearly saw that a few garrisonsscattered through that vast province would not be sufficient toheld the Dacians in check, and that Barbarism, though drivenback, would return as the victors withdrew ; accordingly, he intro-duced a whole population fromthe older provinces. In spite offifteen centuries of misfortunes, theRoumanians at this day numbertwelve millions of men. Trajanin a few years had done the workof a century. This vast focus of Roman lifeestablished beyond the Danube extended a beneficent influence overthe neighboring provinces. Moesia had remained uncultivated andwithout cities, but civilization in crossing it hadlet drop some germ
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