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Eventually, Trajan's popularity among his peers was such that the Roman Senate bestowed upon him the honorific of optimus, meaning "the best", [78] [79] which appears on coins from 105 on. [80] This title had mostly to do with Trajan's role as benefactor, such as in the case of his returning confiscated property.
Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius (c. 201 – June 251), known as Trajan Decius or simply Decius (/ ˈ d iː ʃ i ə s / [2]), was Roman emperor from 249 to 251. A distinguished politician during the reign of Philip the Arab , Decius was proclaimed emperor by his troops after putting down a rebellion in Moesia .
Trajan wrote a chronicle, which was "very admirable" (Suda T 901). The Suda describes him as "a most faithful Christian and most Orthodox". The chronicle is commonly believed to have covered the period from the late 7th century (likely 668) to ca. 713 or 720, and was probably used by Theophanes the Confessor and Patriarch Nikephoros I of ...
Tereus, the king that was turned into a hoopoe [1] Phineus, Phoenician son of Agenor, blind king and seer [2] Poltys, son of Poseidon [3] Pyreneus, died trying to harm the Muses; Harpalycus, [4] king of the Amymnaeans; Thoas, founder of Thoana; Mopsus, killed Myrine, an amazon queen; Peirous, a Thracian war leader [5] killed by Thoas the Aetolian
Trajan's response to Pliny makes it clear that being known as a "Christian" was sufficient for judicial action. [ 3 ] Everett Ferguson states that the charges against Christians by Pliny may have been partly based on the "secret crimes" associated with Christianity, later characterized by Athenagoras as atheism, cannibalistic feasts and incest ...
Ethan means "strong and optimistic, solid and enduring, permanent". The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 4:31, Psalm. 89 title, 1 Chronicles. 2:6 and 2:8, 1 Chronicles. 6:42 and 6:44, and 1 Chronicles. 15:17 and 15:19). He was a standard of wisdom to whom King Solomon is compared favorably. Called there "Ethan the ...
In 106 AD, during the reign of Roman emperor Trajan, the last king of the Nabataean kingdom Rabbel II Soter died, [47] which may have prompted the official annexation of Nabatea to the Roman Empire. [47] Some epigraphic evidence suggests a military campaign, commanded by Cornelius Palma, the governor of Syria.
Trajan conquered the Dacians, under King Decibalus, and made Dacia, across the Danube in the soil of barbary, a province that in circumference had ten times 100,000 paces; but it was lost under Imperator Gallienus, and, after Romans had been transferred from there by Aurelian, two Dacias were made in the regions of Moesia and Dardania.