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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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ROME UNDER TRAJAN—A CHARIOT RACE
by
ULPIANO CHECO
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TRAJAN 49
though brilliant failure. In the retreat from Ctesiphon (117), the old emper-
or tasted for almost the first time the bitterness of defeat in the field. He at-
tacked the desert city of Hatra, westward of the Tigris, whose importance is
still attested by grand ruins. The want of water made it impossible to maintain
a large force near the city, and the brave Arabs routed the Roman cavalry. Tra-
jan, who narrowly escaped being killed, was forced to withdraw.
A more alarming difficulty lay before him. Taking advantage of the absence
of the emperor in the far East, and possibly by an understanding with the leaders
of the rising in Armenia and the annexed portions of Parthia, the Jews all over
the East had taken up arms at the same moment, and at a given signal. The
massacres they committed were portentous. In Cyprus 240,000 men are said to
have been put to death, and at Cyrene 220,000. At Alexandria, on the other
hand, many Jews were killed. The Romans punished massacre by massacre, and

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