DACIA, a region of European Scythia, today - the whole Romania and small parts of the nearby countries. Under Augustus, the Daciansfirst came into warlike collision with the Romans and were driven back beyond the Danube by Lentulus. A hundred years afterwards, Trajan, at the head of his cohorts, penetrated into the interior of Dacia, difficult as it was of access, being closed up and fortified by narrow gorges of mountains. That prince, in two succesive wars, met with a vigorous resistance; but at length, having conquered Decebalus, whose death shortly followed, he converted the Dacian king's dominions into a Roman province. - Hadrian at first, it is said, was inclined to abandon these hard earned conquests of his great predecessor; but continued to occupy the province with a powerful army. - Decius (Trajanus), about A. D. 249 struggled successfully, but with great difficulty, to defend the province against repeated incursions of the Goths. But at his death, it soon became an object of assault and a scene of devastation for fresh northern barbarians. - Dacia, at length lost to Rome under Gallienus, was recovered by Aurelianus; but he, despairing of being able to retain it permanently as a posession of the empire, transported the inhabitants into Moesia, which (according to Vopiscus) then took the name of Dacia Cis-Istrensis, or Dacia on this side the Danube. Although eventually compelled to give way before the strategic skill and superior discipline of the imperial legionaries, the Dacian people, both before and after their subjection to the Romans, shewed themselves to be
Prodiga gens animae, studiisque asperrima belli.

DACIA, a region of European Scythia, today - the whole Romania and small parts of the nearby countries. Under Augustus, the Dacians first came into warlike collision with the Romans and were driven back beyond the Danube by Lentulus. A hundred years afterwards, Trajan, at the head of his cohorts, penetrated into the interior of Dacia, difficult as it was of access, being closed up and fortified by narrow gorges of mountains. That prince, in two succesive wars, met with a vigorous resistance; but at length, having conquered Decebalus, whose death shortly followed, he converted the Dacian king's dominions into a Roman province. - Hadrian at first, it is said, was inclined to abandon these hard earned conquests of his great predecessor; but continued to occupy the province with a powerful army. - Decius (Trajanus), about A. D. 249 struggled successfully, but with great difficulty, to defend the province against repeated incursions of the Goths. But at his death, it soon became an object of assault and a scene of devastation for fresh northern barbarians. - Dacia, at length lost to Rome under Gallienus, was recovered by Aurelianus; but he, despairing of being able to retain it permanently as a posession of the empire, transported the inhabitants into Moesia, which (according to Vopiscus) then took the name of Dacia Cis-Istrensis, or Dacia on this side the Danube. Although eventually compelled to give way before the strategic skill and superior discipline of the imperial legionaries, the Dacian people, both before and after their subjection to the Romans, shewed themselves to be
Prodiga gens animae, studiisque asperrima belli.