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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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r, seems assured. Theground is covered with dead and dying Dacians; a wounded man is laid under a tree by two comrades; another,at the right of the centre, near the palisade, falls upon his own sword. The Dacian leaders wear skull-caps (jnlophores), and two of them fringed military cloaks over a cuirass.The ordinary soldiers are bareheaded ; but their costume, as well as the appearance of their city, shows thatthey belonged to a higher grade of civilization than the Germans of the same period. Their small shieldsresemble those of the Romans; they also use the short sword, and throw javelins—for the most part notrepresented, or at least not preserved, in the relief; one, at the centre, is hurling stones. Their best weapon,however, is the bow; in the background, a Dacian, resting it against the trunk of an oak, is aiming his arrowat a Roman. The Dacian archer in the thick of the fight has a qfuiver on his back.—In the background, in a History of All Nations, Vol. V., page 137. : IX.
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Destruction of a City. (From Frohner.) grove of oaks and pines, the serpent (draco), the national emblem of the Dacians, is twice represented. Attachedto the end of a long pole, and constructed of several sections, with wide-open jaws and body inflated by thewind, it strikingly resembles a living re))tile. At the side of one of them a vexillum floats in the breeze. The battle takes place in a storm, and the god of thunder (lupiter tonitrualis) directs his bolts against thebarbarians, thus contributing in no small degree to their defeat. The barbarians are now vanquished, and the surviving remnants, at the extreme right, flee into theforests. A city strong in defences must be surrendered. The victorious Eoman soldiery set fire to the houses.Trajan views the scene in person, with javelin in hand, and attended by two officers. The arrangement and plan of the Dacian city are remarkable. On the summit of the rocks stands thecitadel, surrounded by two concentric walls; around the first encl

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