Total Cumulative Posts : 30 Joined : 03-01-2007 Days Since Join : 679 Posts per Day : 0.04 Home page : No Information Birthday : No Information Location : interests : AIM Name : ICQ Number : Yahoo Identity : MSN Identity : Title : Signature : "Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan. Like him, the Roman emperor undertook an expedition against the nations of the East; but he lamented with a sigh, that his advanced age scarcely left him any hopes of equalling the renown of the son of Philip. Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms. He descended the River Tigris in triumph, from the mountains of Armenia to the Persian Gulf. He enjoyed the honor of being the first, as he was the last, of the Roman generals, who ever navigated that remote sea."
- Edward Gibbon, the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Full Version
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