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Amm., 15.9.8 and Strabo, 4.4.4â5.
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S. C. Standford,Native and Roman in the Central Welsh Borderland, RFS, 8 (1989) 52.
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Today's Jodefat, ten miles north of Nazareth.
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JW, 3.166â7.
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id., 243â9.
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Suet.,Nero, 40. also C. Cavafy's poem on these same events:Poems (Athens, 1948) and various anthologies.
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Father of one of our sources, the historian G. Suetonius Tranquillus.
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Dio, 61.33.3.
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Tac.,An., 14.29â30.
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Compare Tac.Hist., 4.17: âSlavery might serve for Syrians and the East, but many in Gaul had been born before there was such a thing as Roman taxes.'
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Tac.,An., 14.33.
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No longer believed to have been at Stanwick, where a 1980s dig uncovered enough Roman material to suggest that this Brigantian stronghold remained pro-Roman.
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Agr., 20. For the same method applied in North Africa, seeAn., 3.74.
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Due to storms,dB G, 4.29, 5.11, 5.23.
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Near Braco, Perthshire, some six miles west of Gleneagles.
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The Antiquary, Ch. 4.
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The Camp at Durno, Aberdeenshire and the Site of Mons Graupius, Britannia, 9 (1978), 271â87.
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Estimated by S. S. Frere,Britannia (London, 1967) 135.
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G. S. Maxwell,Sidelight on the Roman Military Campaigns in North Britain, RFS, 13 (1983), 62.
122 .â
Near Edzell (ten miles north-west of Montrose), the empire's most northerly fort. Invisible on the ground.
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Tu vero felix Agricola, opportunitate mortis (happy in the timeliness of your death).Agr., 45.3.
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Earlier passed on Caligula, later on Commodus.
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Panegyricus, 52.4â5.
126 .â
Decline and Fall, Ch. 1, 7â8.
EPISODE 4: The Artist
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T. Nagy,Traian und Pannonien, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Pannoniens, RFS, 13 (1983) 377.
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Fronto, to Lucius Verus, 17.
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Epitome de Caesaribus, 41.13.
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Dio, 68. 7.6.
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id., 68.6 and 7.
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TheActa Diurna, begun by Julius Caesar. No trace remains of this priceless source.
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Panegyricus, 20 and 65.
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id., 88.
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Sculptor Torrigiano, erected by Sixtus V in 1587.
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From Ulpius, Trajan's family name.
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Museo della Civilità Romana, Piazza G. Angeli, EUR, Rome.
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Die Reliefs der Traianssäule (Berlin, 1896â1900).
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Die Traianssäule: ein römisches Kunstwerk zu Beginn der Spätantike (Berlin-Leipzig, 1926).
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A. Malissard,La comparison avec le cinéma: permet-elle de mieux comprendre la frise continue de la Colonne Trajane? Mitteilungen des deutchen Archaeologischen Instituts; 83 (1976).
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There are, however, changes of elevation, for example to allow the viewer to see inside encampments.
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Hy. V: 1, Prologue, 16 etc.
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id., IV, Prologue, 53.
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Cichorius, 1896; Petersen, 1899; Stuart-Jones, 1910; Davies, 1920; Lehman-Hartleben, 1926; Richmond, 1935; Patsch, 1937; Rossi, 1971; Syme, 1971; Gauer, 1977; Lepper and Frere, 1988; Settiset al., 1988; to mention but a quarter of contributors.
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Römische Geschichte, Bk. 5, Ch. 6, 205 (1919 edn, Berlin).
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Trajan's Army on Trajan's Column (London, 1935), 3.
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Trajan's Column and the Dacian Wars (London, 1971).
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op. cit., 3 and 4.
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Mentioned by Dio, 68.9.4.
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Nuovi Risultati Storici della interpretazione della Colonna Traiana, Roma, 2.3.
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Tristia, 3.10.75.
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Eng. scythe, fromScythia.
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Domitian's Praetorian Prefect, killed in the earlier fighting.
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Laberius Maximus, one of Trajan's commanders.
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As, today, outward-tending walls are sometimes held by cramping irons, with discs showing at each end.
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Thedenarius is believed to have been the biblical âsilver penny', specified inMatthew 20.2. as a worker's daily pay.
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M. Speidal,The Captor of Decebalus: a new inscription from Philippi, JRS, 60 (1970) 142â53.
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R. Vulpe,Les Valla de la Valachie, de la Basse Moldavie et du Boudjak, RFS, 9 (1972), 267.
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K. T. Erim,The School of Aphrodisias, Archaeology, 20 (1967) 18â27.
EPILOGUE: Barbarians and Romans
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Agr., 12.
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Ger., 33.
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F. Križek,Die Römischen Stationen in Vorland des Norisch-Pannonischen Limes bis zu den Marcomannkrieg, RFS, 6 (1967), 131â7.
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An., 2.62.
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Amm. 23.6.68. This curious passage describes the Chinese donating silk to the barbarians, presumably as payment to maintain peace on their frontiers.
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Roman Commerce with the East, ANRW (Berlin, 1987).
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20.4.6., 31.4.9., 31.8.9., 31.10.1.
Index
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Adamclisi (Romania)
Agricola, Julius
Tacitus
in Britain
roadbuilding
âScottish' campaign
naval support
Domitian's jealousy
recall
death
loss of gains
summary
agriculture, Roman
Agrippa, Marcus
Agrippa, Postumus
Ahenobarbus, Domitius
Airs, Waters and Places
Alamans
Alexander the Great
Aliso (Germany)
amber road
Ammian, historian
Anglesey
Antoninus Pius, emperor (AD 139â61)
Apollodorus (see also Danube bridge)
Aquae Sextae, battle
Ardoch
Armenia
Armin (Arminius, Hermann)
army, Roman
size
deployment
artillery
Athenaeus, author
Augustus, emperor, (27BC âAD 14)
as Octavian
asprinceps
policies
world view
birth rate
family misfortunes
nepotism
peace
Britain
Germany
German War
death
testament
âaccomplishments'
Bandel, E. von
barbarians (see also Roman-barbarian relations, Roman view of, human sacrifice, commerce)
general