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belonged to Meefia, and Tepes, near * the 
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that country of Europe between the Danube and the Car- 
pathian mountains, which, after an obftinate ftruggle o 
five years, was fubdued by the Romans, ae to the 
ire in the reign of Trajan and joined to Meefia 
ulgaria, by oT adm re bridge, ae ruins of 
a are il feen near Ticher 
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and on the weft it was defend- 
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neajou,””? which was 
deemed facred by the Gete. Sire rivers were 
the Danube, the Tibifcus, a ies, or rea e Aluta, the 
Ordeffus, the Ararus, the 
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welt to eaft, Lederata oppo 5 Varied, which 
e bridge of Trajan. 
The ancient hiltorians e mention of the 
country, known under i 
time when Darius carried his arm 
year 508, B.C. After baer ae 
Bofphorus, he was in danger of lofing his whole army in 
the country of the Getz, between the Ifter and the pines 
Lyfimachus, to whom Thrace was allotted in the general 
diftribution after the death of Alexander, made an unfuc- 
cefsful attack upon the Dacians, and was ta 
e other fide of the Danube. Neverthelefs, 
when the river was frozen and became paffable, they made 
occafional incurfions into the territory of the empire for the 
fake of pillage. Auguftus, in order to keep them within 
their own boundaries, pti into feveral treaties with them, 
was moderation. Under the 
tea frequently recurred to 
arms 3 under Domitian, Decebalus, their king, entered 
Meefia a see d Oppius Sabinus ; but this emperor con- 
cluded with them a difgraceful peace, and entered Rome in 
triu 
eee an obtained a degreee of — correfponding to his 
valour and military virtues; and advancing into the country 
humbled Decebalus and eoultrained him ue for peace, 
which the emperor ‘bagi = though he aes beth 
ted b miffaries, to aflafiinate Trajan. 
The Roman forces eaves penetrated into the country, 
and Decebalus, defpairing of being able to refift them, put 
an end to his own life. Trajan, as we have already faid, 
and conftru 
ous, and attem 
Antonine the Dacians remained viet ; but neither cg nor 
the emperors in fubfequent periods adhered to the terms of 
the treaties and conventions that had ee eftablifhed be- 
tween them: at a fubfequent period the Go ey among 
— inhabitants of the northern regions, invaded the Ro- 
an provinces ; were particularly allred by the 
rich harvefts which covered the fields of new 
and unfettled province was neither ough to refift, 
nor rich enough to fatiate the apecouliels of the 
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fecurity, fondly conceiving themfelves at an inacceflible 
iftance from arbarian invaders irruptions 
and the new fettlers. f Aurelian was juftified 
by the event. The extenfive ae of ancient Dacia, or 
Ulterior Dacia, which the Romans had been unable to de- 
oman pro- 
vinces with bio od and ruin, even to the fuburbs of Cone. 
grea e: 
he treaty of peace which Attila, king of the Mgnie 
diGated " Theodofius and the eaftern empire, A. D. 446y. 
gave him the fovereignty of ancient Dacia; and he ftipu- 
lated, that, for the eee he his Dacian fubjeés, a. 
fafe and tif eftablifhed on the fouthern 
bank of the Danub 
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After the death of Attila, and the extinGion of his em- 
pire, Dacia became the feat o a new but tranfitory power,, 
under Ardaric, king of the Ge epide. 
The countries of which ancient Dacia was compofed were 
afterwards governed by Lea princes, under the pretecion 
of the kings of Hun efe princes, having formed. 
alliances with the ae a ‘Po land, affumed independency, 
but were at laft forced to furrender their countries as fiefs to 
Auftria and the Ottoman Port 
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ER, Anprew, in Biography, was born at Caftres 
in 1651; here alfo he received the fi pei of his educa». 
tion, and would probably have completed his ftudies in the 
fame college, had net the management of it :fallen entirely 
into the hands of the Jefuits, a circumftance that induced 
him to remove to Saumur, where he received inftructions 
from Tannegui le Fevre, a man of great celebrity, whofe 
daughter Dacier afterwards married. Within two years of 
their marriage, they both renounced the Proteftant religion 
and conformed to the Roman Catholic faith. Dacier was 
firft publicly known as an editor of feveral of the Greek 
and Roinan clalica, in which he was aflifted by his gp 
