17. Armeniam: Trajan began this campaign in 114 A.D. The winter of the same year he spent at Antioch. During the next two years he conquered the greater part of the Parthian empire, taking the capital city Ctesiphon.
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3. amīcōs … frequentāns: ‘going often to his friends to salute them.’
4. fēstōs diēs habuissent: ‘they were celebrating feast days.’
indiscrēta: ‘with no distinction of rank.’
6. nihil … agēns: his finances were prosperous, partly owing to good management, and partly from the success of certain mining operations in Dacia.
9. per orbem … multa: “He constructed several good roads in the provinces and Italy; among them was the road across the Pomptine Marshes. At Ostia he built a large new basin. At Rome he constructed the aqueduct called by his name, built a theater in the Campus Martius, and, above all, made the Forum Traianum, with its basilicas and libraries, and his column in the center.”
10. nihil nōn: the figure of Litotes, affirming a thing by denying its contrary; cf. nōn compāruisset, Bk. I, 2.