O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi
Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra!
[114] Suam quisque domum spatio circundat, sive adversus casus ignis remedium, sive inscitia aedificandi. Ne caementorum apud illos, aut tegularum usus. Tacit. De m. G. c. xvi.
[115] Aur. Victor. Epit. cap. XL. Galerius ortus Dacia Ripensi, quem locum Romulianum ex vocabulo Romulae matris appellarat.
[116] The Sclavonian character is twofold; one said to be invented by St. Hierom, which is now used by the Rascians and Bosnians; the other by St. Cyril, proper to Valachia, Moldavia, Muscovy, &c.
[117] This inscription was first published by Reinesius, Class. vi. n. 90. and from him by Sponius, Miscell. erud. antiq. p. 294. But both of them vary somewhat from the reading here given.
[118] It is probable these stones might all come from Ulpia Trajana, formerly called Sarmazegethusa, concerning which see Zamosius, in Analect. Antiq. Transyl. c. 4.
[119] Ovid. ad Liviam, ℣. 387.
Danubiusque rapax, et Dacius orbe remoto
Apulus, huic hosti per breve Pontus iter.