History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . l no bettin- thantheir provinces. Chosroes or his snecessor tied to the interior ofMedia; the daughter of the great king and his thrcjne of massive gold Avere captured at Snsa, andSeleucia, the ancient Greekcapital, opened its gates,blaster of the principalplaces of Babylonia, Trajandescended the Tigris A\ithhis fleet, receiving on hispassage the submission ofthe chiefs along the banks,and arrived at the PersianGulf. Here, seeing avessel setting out forIndia, he exclaimed: Were I younger, I wouldgive
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . l no bettin- thantheir provinces. Chosroes or his snecessor tied to the interior ofMedia; the daughter of the great king and his thrcjne of massive gold Avere captured at Snsa, andSeleucia, the ancient Greekcapital, opened its gates,blaster of the principalplaces of Babylonia, Trajandescended the Tigris A\ithhis fleet, receiving on hispassage the submission ofthe chiefs along the banks,and arrived at the PersianGulf. Here, seeing avessel setting out forIndia, he exclaimed: Were I younger, I wouldgive t(j Iiome for itsfrontier the limits of theempire of Alexander I And the Eternal City,confident as its prince,struck medals representingArmenia overtluown andtrampled under foot b\the emperor, or twoParthians seated on theground. having beforethem an empty quiverand a bow unstrung.^ But these Parthians were going to rise,the quiver was about to be filled, the bow to twang again, andthe victorious emperor will hear, even in his camp, the whirr ofthose arrows which he thought he had :^vi Irajan wearing a Cuiras^.- Or more precisely, by the canal called Xakannahha, royal river, which extemled fromthe Euphrates to the Tigris. ^ Statue of Parian marble, found at Gabii. (Museum of the Louvre. Clarac, No. 4S.) Thecuirass, in place of a head of Medusa, bears a mask of Triton. In this has been seen an allusionto the Roman fleets which Trajan sent to the Indian ocean. Cohen, ii., Trajan. Xos. 318 and 375. See these coins on the followinir pagi\ NEUVA AND TUAJAN, 96 TO 117 881
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