Trajan

MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS, (tra'jan,) emperor of Rome from 98 to 117 A. D. He was a military commander of the Roman stamp, and his campaigns were victories. He carried the terror of his arms to regions more remote from Rome than had ever before been reached by her armies, and Dacia and Parthia were the trophies of his courage and conduct. The column which he reared in the Forum he constructed at Rome, still records his fame. [s. 903]