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Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 38. — Pompeii as excavated. The house of Coi-nelius Rufus. (From a photograph.) Pannonian legions were advanced to Vindobona and the Noric Car-nutum, so that the entire Moesian border was defended with four le-gions. Decebalus made his first attack upon the Romans about A.D.83, and in the following years successively defeated two imperial armies.A third army, under Julianus, succeeded in inflicting a defeat on theDacians in their own country, and in penetrating to their capital, Sar-mizegethusa (Gradischtje). (Gf. Plate VII.) But Domitian, whohad quarrelled with the German tribes settled by Tiberius on theDanube, and had been defeated by them, hastened, in A.D. 80, to makepeace with the Dacians; and, seeking to save appearances, assumed the 1 This name was probably not the name of an individual, but a royal title. PLA
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Relief from the Coluinn of Trajan. (Fr( The Eoraan army is engaged before Sarruizegethusa, the chief stronghold of the Dacians, the ruins jeastern Hungary. Scenes from this engagement cover more than half of the reliefs on the column, which iways: the bed-rock is sometimes excavated into a rampart; thereon are laid two layers of huge stones witÜtimber. This use of stone and timber is ancient, and traces of it have been found also in Gaul and Spain.The troops of Trajan advance to storm the fortress; the slingers let fly their missiles, while theThe weapons of the Dacians are of various sorts, only imperfectly indicated in the relief for artiBoman on the ladder has already cut otf his antagonists head, and holds it as a trophy in his left hand. Th History of All Nations, Vol. V., page 130. e: VII

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