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dei«d important and iiita e lUu g, by the appointmect of Pliny, 

 A.D. 103, as governor of Pootus 2nd Bithynia, and by the 

 correfpondence to which this appointment gave occafion, 

 acd nhich pourtrays in the moft pleaficg chara&eis the en- 

 Ughtoied and benignant fpiiit by which he was aduated. 

 (See Ckristiax Religiox and Plixt.) In the following 

 year the war with Decebalus was renewed, and on this oc- 

 cafioa Trajan conftruSed a bridge over the Danube, which 

 was long admined as one cf the nxjft confideiable relics of 

 antiquity. When Decebalus had difpatched faimfelf after 

 the lofs of his capital, Dacia was conftitnted a Roman pro- 

 Tince, and colonized &om other parts of the empire. ( See 

 Dacia. ) Upon his return to Rome, he employed himfetf 

 in carrying on fome wtB-ks of pabUc magmScence and uti- 

 lity : but fnccefs in his military espeditioiis imfcwtanatety 

 cboilhed the innate propenfity of war, which feans to have 

 been his moft cenfnrabfc foible ; and accordingly the fnb- 

 feqaent period of his reign was too ardently devoted to the 

 gra t i fica tion of his ambition, in extending the bomidaiies of 

 the Roman empire. In the year 187, he rednced Armenia 

 into a Roman proiince ; the whole of Mefopotamia was alfo 

 fobdoed ; Ar^>ia Petrsa was Ukewife made a Roman pio- 

 Tioce; and all the barbarous tribes fitnated north of Aimonia, 

 between the Euxine aad Cafpian feas, were reduced to fnb- 

 noffion. After the lapfe of feme years, of which no regu- 

 lar account resiaics, we find Trajan, A.D. i 14, dedicating 

 the magnificent fbmm, which he had conftruded at Rome, 

 and erediiig the column on which has exploits are fculp- 

 tnred (fee Columx aad Fobctm) ; and alfo renewing the 

 ■war with the Parthians. In 1 15 he crofied the Tigris oa a 

 bridge of boats, sztd fnbdoed Adiabene and the whole of 

 Aflyria ; and haring- captured Ctefiphcm and Sofa, be de- 

 fceaded the Tigris witi hL= fleet, and had the hcmoor of 

 betng the firft and la& Roman genaal who navigated the 

 Indian ocean, ravaging the coa& of Arabia FeUx. He even 

 mdnlged the ambitipa of vifiting Indm. On his return he 

 laid fi^e to Atra; the capital of an Arabian tribe, vdudi 

 be was obliged to rsife aad to withdraw to Srria. la the 

 year 1 1 7 be was attatked with a paralytic diforder, attended 

 with dropfy, and be therefore bafiened his return to Italv. 

 At Selincs in Cilicia be had another attack, which proved 

 fataL In his laSt ooments, the emprefs. Plotiiia fecnred the 

 aikjptioD of Adrian for his fucceficH-. Trajan died in the 

 fixty-fonnh year of his age, after a rdgn of niDeCeen years 

 and a half, and his remains were depc^ted ncdfr his own 

 column. This emperor's virtaes were fitadsd by weaknefies 

 aa^ TKCi. His pafiion for war has been already mentioced ; 

 te was alfo addiited to fenfual indulgences, of which intem- 

 perance in dricking was the kaft fcandaloas. Nbtwithftand- 

 ing the Uemilhes of his chara&er, his loanory was king 

 hdd in veneration, infomoch that 250 years after his death, 

 the fenators, in their acchmations oa the choice of a oew 

 emperor, vociferated dK wifh that he might be " m<K« for- 

 tuEate than Auguftus, and better than Trajan." Anc. 

 Un. His. Crevier's Rom. £mp. 



Thajax Cchaas, a famous hiftcHical cofamm, eie6ed 

 in Rome, in honour of the emperor Trajan. See Colcmjt, 



Tbajax, 13 Gurgrcfiy, a town of European Turkey, in 

 Moldavia, oa the Pruth ; 16 miks N. of Galatz. 



TRAJANA, or Trea, in Aaaat Gagrapht, a town of 

 Italy, b the interior cf Piceaum. PloL and Itin. Act02. ' 



TRAJANOPOLI, ir. Gasgrt^y a town cf European 

 Turkey, in tie prorisce of Romania, on the Mariza. This 

 !8 aa andent town, and took its name feran the emperor 

 Tngan, who repaired and adorned it : it afterwards became 



rr cocfiderable, and now, tbongh mocfa reduced mms its 



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anciecn^ fplendoor, is ftiD the fee of a Greek archbiihop ; 40 

 miles S. of Adrianople. 



TRAJANOPOLIS, in^ociatf Go^n^, a tows in the 

 interior of Thrace, opoo the banks of the river Hdircs. In 

 the Itio. Anton, this town is placed between Biicizes acd 

 Cypfela- — Alfo, a town of Myfia, near the fea, between 

 Antandrus and Adiamyttiam. — ^Alfo, a town of A£a, in 

 Cilicia Trachea, where the empem Trajan died : the fame 

 with Selinunte. 



Trajaxopolis, ot Trmt^eRt, a town of Afia, in Pbrgia 

 Pacatjana- 



TRAJANUS PoRTDS, a port of Italy, on the coaft of 

 Etniria, at the mouth of the Tiber ; confbruded by the 

 emperor Claudius, and repaired by Trajan, who rendered it 

 more lecure and commodious, and gave it his name. 



TRAJECTORY of a comet, is iu path or wbit, cr tie 

 hne it defcribes in its motion. 



This, Hevdins, in his Cometographia, will have to be 

 very nearly- a right line ; but Dr. Halley concludes it to be 

 a very eccentrical eDipfis. 



Sir liaac Newtoa, in prop. xU. of his third book, fhews 

 bow to determine the tiajedory of a comet firom three 

 obfervatians ; and, in his lafi propofition, how to cured a 

 trqeSory graphically defcribsd. See Combt. 



This term is often ufed, ia geoeial, for the path of any 

 body moving either in a void, or in a medium that refifts it; 

 motion ; or ey^oi for any curve paffing through a given 

 nombex' of points. Thus Newton, Princip. lib. i. jvap. 22. 

 propoles to defcribe a trajedory that fhall pais tfaroogh five 

 given pomts. 



TRAJECTUM, ia Amdat Gagrifiy, a town of th? 

 Batavi upon the Rhine. Trajednm is thought to be o::e c: 

 the fifty manfioos ereded by Drufos in this countrv, ;o 

 afcertain the courfe of its rivets. This place fnftairT i 

 variety of viciffitudes, till at kngth it was eftabUflied by 

 Romans. It had the name of Tiajedum Ulpii, in honoar 1 

 of Ulpine Trajan. In its aivirans are found many aacknt 

 remains. See Utrecht. 



TRAJECTUS, a place in the ille of Albion, npm the I 

 route &om Calleva to Ifca, between Abooe and Aqnge j 

 Sobs. Anton. Itin. Antiquaries are generally of opinioiiy ' 

 that Trajedos flmold have been jJaced before Abon^ and J 

 that it was fitnated at Oldbury, where, as they fnppoi^ | 

 was a ferry over the Severn ; but Mr. Horiiey imagines 

 that Trajedns was fitnated at the paflige over the Av 

 near Hesham, 9 miks from Bath. 



TRAJETTO, in Gagnfiy, a town of Naples, 

 Lavora, near the mouth of the Garigliano, the fee of a ] 

 biihop, buih on the rmns of the ancient Mintumz ; 6 mik* . 

 S.W. of Sezza. 



TRAIGUERA, a town of Spain, in Vaknda; la 

 miks N.W. of Penifcola. 



TRAIl^BoABSS, in Ship-Bwldieg., a term for the carred 1 

 woik b etwe e n the cheeks of the head, at the bed of the j 

 figure. 



TRAILING ArblTBS, in GerJaimg, the 

 name of a cmioas ornamental plant. See £figl£a. 



TRAIN, the attendance of a great perfon, or the trail ( 

 a gowE), or robe of fbtte. 



In Fidrsmrfj it denotes the tail of a hawk. 



Traix is Ukewife ofed ftv the number of beats wfaicJl i 

 watch makes in an hour, or any other certain time. 

 WATCH-awri, Skc 



TsAnr is alfo nled for a hne of gunpowder laid to 

 fire to a quantity thereof^ in order to do execution, 

 blowing up earth, woiks, buildings, &c. 



Tbats <x Trjoj-s ef AroSaj. See Artiuxbt. 



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