Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 343
cians are seen settingfire (323-325) to a quarter of Sarmizegetusa, and to the cxx right of this is (326-329) the tremendous scene of the self-poisoning of the Dacian chiefs, who prefer death to dis-honour. The episode is dej)icted with the utmost originality * According to Petersen (D.K., ii., p.… … THE TRAJAN COLUMN 199 and force, as if in Rome some captive Dacian who hadwitnessed it, had described it fresh from his memory to theartist of the column. In the centre two splendid Daciansstand by a great cauldron or mixing bowl (328). The oneladles out the poison into the cup which his comrade…
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