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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e continued to the Danube. Many rulers down toProbus applied themselves to this, although it would not bepossible to give each his due. Domitian gave particular attentionto it, for, according to Frontinus.- he had a line of defence According to the general opinion, from Tillemont to M. des Vergers (Chron. du rhgne deTrajan), it was Domitian who gave this province to Trajan; according to Mommsen (Etude surPline, in the Bibl. de VÉcole de/> haute.» études, p. 10. n. 2), and Dierauer (Gesrh. Traj., p. 15),it would be Nerva : but their strongest proof is an antithesis of Pliny which even Hiirnouf liasbeen unable to take literally. Another pa.^sage shows that, in tlie last year of ))omitian.Trajan occupied a very prominent position, omnibtis excelsior (Pa)i., 04) : and if tliis nominationhad been made by Nerva. Pliny would not luive failed to extract some oratorical effect fromtills prudent choice. ^ Strateg., i. 3, 10 : . . . . limitibu.? per centum riginti millia passuum acti? ....
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Domitian (Statue in the Vatican Braccio Nuovo, No. 120).

TITUS AND DOMITIAN, 79 TO 96 A.D. 07 constructed 120 miles long. During the revolt of a legate, ofwhich we shall speak further, the Germans had penetrated as faras the Ehine and threatened Gaul ; and Trajan was without douhtcharged to prevent a like danger. There is a difierence of ojDinionrespecting the plan offortifications which, cross-ing the Taunus and î:he-Suabian Alps, seems tohave enveloped the lowervalley of the Maine, whereis found the highwaj forpenetrating into the heartof Germany and the wholebasin of the îfeckar. Undercover of these defences,which threw the Germansback upon the centre oftheir country, the numberof peoj)le increased in thetithe-lands (agri decimiates).They had their religiousand political centre at AreeFlavire (Eothweil on theNeckar), where theyassembled and adored thedivinity of Eome and itsemperors. It Was, as itwere, a new province form-ing at the expense ofbarbarism firmly hel

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