[99] Carra, p. 3.
[100] As in the case of Britain; see Smith, Geography, article 'Colonia.'
[101] Carra takes his account from Eutropius, who says (Book VIII. cap. 6): 'Trajan, when he conquered Dacia, transferred thither from all parts of the Roman Empire considerable numbers of men to till the fields and live in the towns. For by its long war under Decebalus Dacia had been exhausted of its men.' he says nothing of the 'scum of the towns.' But in Book IX. cap. 15, Eutropius, in speaking of the Roman withdrawal from Dacia under Aurelian, says: 'He took the Romans away from the cities and fields of Dacia, and planted them in the middle of Mœsia.'
[102] Smith (Dacia) says it was evacuated between 270 and 275 a.d. Neigebaur and other German as well as French writers name years between these two, the edict of Aurelian being dated, it is said, 274 a.d.; whilst Roesler (pp. 60-51) believes that the actual withdrawal of the Roman army did not take place until 280 a.d.
[103] lxviii. 13. He says (after describing the bridge in glowing terms): 'Trajan, fearing lest, when the Ister was frozen, the Romans on the farther bank should be attacked, built it in order to afford an easy passage for the troops; Adrian, on the other hand, apprehensive that the barbarians, after having overcome those who guarded it, would find it an easy means of penetrating into Mœsia, demolished the upper portion of it.'
[104] Freeman (General Sketch of European History) says 269-270 a.d.
[105] Trebellius Pollio. Gibbon sets down the number of Goths slain at 50,000.
[106] Vol. ii. p. 17. The other writers here referred to are Pic, Roesler, Paget, Petermann, &c.
[107] Ibid.
[108] Vol. i. p. 330.