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Identifier: romeitsrisefallt00myer (find matches)
Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
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nt memorial of his achievements, theemperor erected, in what came to be known as TrajansForum, a splendid marble shaftcalled Trajans Column. Thegreat pillar is almost as perfectto-day as when reared, eighteencenturies ago. It is one hundredand forty-seven feet high, andis wound from base to summitwith a spiral band of sculptures,containing more than twenty-fivethousand human figures. Itspictured sides are the best, andalmost the only, record we nowpossess of the Dacian wars ofthe emperor. In the latter years of hisreign (a.d. 114-116) Trajan ledhis legions to the East, crossedthe Euphrates, reduced Armenia,and wrested from the Parthiansmost of the territory which onceformed the heart of the Assyrianmonarchy. Constructing an im-mense flotilla of boats on the i Upper Euphrates, he floatedwith his army down that streamto where it draws near the Ti-gris, opposite the city of Ctesi-phon. At this point the boats were pulled from the water,dragged overland to the Tigris, and relaunched. From
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Trajans Column. (From a photograph.) 358 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. Ctesiphon the fleet floated down the Tigris and on into thePersian Gulf. Here the sight of an Indian merchantmanis said to have awakened in Trajan ambitious longings toemulate the achievements of Alexander the Great. WereI yet young, he exclaimed, I would not stop till I hadreached the limits of the Macedonian conquest. Out of the territories he had conquered, Trajan made

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