"Dacian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... effect is more striking in the neighbourhood[26] of the victory which it commemorates. The bas relief on the side facing Orange, would not be unworthy of a place between the well-known statues of Dacian captives, which ornament the arch of Constantine. Different as were their respective aeras, the stern thoughtful dignity of the barbarian chiefs, and the spirit ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... shows that the 7th Legion was stationed there. It is to a distinguished soldier, who had twice gained a golden garland of honour, neckchain, and bracelets, which he wore in the triumph after the Dacian war. At Prevlacca, Cattaro, Scagliari, Scoglio S. Giorgio, and ...
— The Shores of the Adriatic - The Austrian Side, The Kuestenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia • F. Hamilton Jackson
... district of Moesia and are called Moesi save among those who are in the very neighborhood. Such as are on the other side are called Dacians, and are either a branch of the Getae or Thracians belonging to the Dacian race that once inhabited Rhodope. Now these Dacians had before this time sent envoys to Caesar: but when they obtained none of their requests, they turned away to follow Antony. To him, however, they were of no great assistance, owing to disputes ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. III • Cassius Dio
... heard it, but he heeded not—his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday: All this rushed with his blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged?—Arise, ye ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... events worth recording, that took place in the Dacian War. Julianus, assigned by the emperor to take charge of the war, made many excellent regulations, one being his command that the soldiers should inscribe their own names and those of the centurions ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio
... died in the middle of the ninth century (856), in the second volume of his Chronicles, —the sixth chapter of the second book,—quotes Tacitus as the author of the History, the passage being in reference to the Romans who fell in the Dacian war. We have no proof that the Annals was in existence in the twelfth century from what John of Salisbury says in his Polycraticon (viii. 18), that Tacitus is among the number of those historians, "qui tyrannorum atrocitates et exitus miseros plenius ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross |
