They were informed that the kings of Bosphorus, Colchos, Iberia, Albania, Osrhoene, and even the Parthian monarch himself, had accepted their diadems from the hands of the emperor; that the independent tribes of the Median and Carduchian hills had implored his protection; and that the rich countries of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, were reduced into the state of provinces.

[21] But the death of Trajan soon clouded the splendid prospect; and it was justly to be dreaded, that so many distant nations would throw off the unaccustomed yoke, when they were no longer restrained by the powerful hand which had imposed it.
[Footnote 19: Trajan's sentiments are represented in a very just and lively manner in the Caesars of Julian.] [Footnote 20: Eutropius and Sextus Rufus have endeavored to perpetuate the illusion.

See a very sensible dissertation of M.Freret in the Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxi.p.

55.] [Footnote 21: Dion Cassius, l.

lxviii.; and the Abbreviators.].