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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27492	The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ...	Bernard, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing B2003; ESTC R2224	420,412	899

as he had inticed into his Service from thence All which he promised against his Mind and being conducted to an Interview with Trajan he threw himself upon the Ground and adored him He sent to the Senate of Rome his Embassadors to have the same Peace confirmed from them that he had made with Trajan The Embassadors were introduced into the Senate where they laid down their Arms upon the Ground and standing before the Senate with their Hands within their Fingers as if they were Captives they spoke in Terms of great Submission to the Senate who ratified the Peace and then they took up their Arms again Warhel the Capital City of Dacia received a Garrison of the Romans and the rest of the Countrey being served accordingly Trajan returned back to Italy He was received in Triumph and the Title Trajan ' s Triumph of the Conquerour of Dacia was given him and inserted into his Stile The Combats of the Gladiators in which he delighted and the diversions of the Stage in which Pylades was one that gained much of his Favour were celebrated for his Entertainment Though he was a Military Prince he took never the less Care of the Civil Policy and minded the Affairs of Peace and Justice In the Forum of Augustus or in the Portico of Livia or in other Places he many times assisted in Person at the Causes which were pleaded there In the mean time Decebalus could not persuade Decebalus renews the War himself to keep the Conditions of the Peace which he had made He proceeded to raise Men provide Arms entertain Deserters re-fortify his Castles and invite the Nations that were his Neighbours to joyn with him to whom he represented That if he was forsaken by them now their own Ruine was the next thing to follow It was easier and the safest way for them he said to preserve their Liberties by standing all by one another whilst they might for the Common Defence than it would be to do this after Decebalus was ruined which would open a Gap to the Enemy to devour them one by one Pursuant to this he began the War by falling upon such as had appear'd against him in the former War and by possessing himself of a part of the Countrey of the Jazyges which was upon the Danube towards Dacia Hereupon the Senate declared Decebalus again an Enemy and Trajan without committing the War to another went in Person to reduce him a second time He marched against him with an Army which Decebalus was in an ill Condition by fair Force to resist but by Deceit and Treachery he was within a Treachery of Decebalus defeated little of effecting that that he could not by his Arms. He sent Persons under the notion of Deserters into Moesia to assassine him as Trajan was always easie of access but then more particularly upon the Incidents of the War any one was admitted to speak to him That which disappointed this Design was one of the Conspirators was taken up on suspicion and put to the Torture who confessed the whole Plot. There was a Commander of a Legion in the Roman Army of great Skill and who had Longinus trapan'd often signalized himself in the Wars against Dacia called Longinus Decebalus found means by Treachery to get this Colonel into his hands and then sent to Trajan to tell him That upon Condition the Countrey as far as the Danube might be restored to him and that Trajan allowed him for the Charges of the War he courted his Friendship and would return Longinus again in safety To which Trajan answered in a manner that was to let him know that he neither made a small nor yet such a high Account of the Life of Longinus as to buy it too dear In the mean time whilst Decebalus was resolving with himself what more to do Longinus found means to procure a quantity of Poyson by the help of a Servant and he took it in the night and died Trajan built a Bridge over the Danube for Trajan ' s Bridge over the Danube which I know not how I can sufficiently admire him The other Works of his are very Magnificent but this is above them all It is a Bridge of Nineteen Arches all of square Stone the Heighth one Hundred and Fifty Foot above the Foundation the Breadth Sixty Foot and the Distance between each Arch one Hundred and Seventy Foot How shall I admire the Charge that this cost and which way also it was possible to Found it in a great River and a difficult Water which hath an ozy Gravel at the bottom when in the mean time there was no turning the Stream aside into another Chanel The River is in other places double and treble the breadth that it is here where this Bridge covers it Here it is at the straightest and therefore so much the more fit place for a Bridge but yet the Account that I have given makes it a pretty broad Passage here also But that which I would chiefly observe from the Breadth of the River in this and in other places is that the broader and the more spatious a Flood it is as it comes hither and the broader and the greater Compass that it challenges as it goes from hence so much the deeper and the more rapid must it be where it is streightned in its Course and this must make it the more difficult to cover it with a Bridge where it is so deep and so rapid Certainly the Greatness of the Soul of Trajan shews it self in this Work tho' it be of no use to us now nor passable The Peers are yet standing which look as if they were only built to shew That nothing is impossible to the Wit of Man The reason of Trajan's Building this Bridge was to pass his Forces with readiness to the Succour of the Romans on the other side of the Danube in case the Barbarians attack'd them at a time when the River was frozen up Hadrian fearing on the contrary that the Barbarians might sometime Force the Passage of this Bridge and give themselves an easie descent by it into the Country of Moesia demolished it and broke down the Arches Trajan passing his Army over the Danube by this Bridge made rather a safe than a quick War and with time and difficulty finished the Conquest of the Kingdom of Dacia He signalized his Conduct and his Gallantry His Personal Valour in many things himself The Soldiers by his Example were encouraged to contemn Dangers and acquit themselves with Honour Amongst the rest a Horseman who was very much wounded was brought out of a Fight to the Surgeon to be dress'd but perceiving that his Life was desperate and that his Wounds were uncurable he quitted the Tent again before his Spirits failed him and rejoyned the Battel and died fighting with great Bravery In fine Decebalus after his Capital City Decebalus kills himself was lost and his Country all taken and himself in danger to