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The emperor on horseback, followed by two mounted attendants, crosses a stream by a bridge of timber erected by the enemy. It is defended by a wooden enclosure of timber palisading. A gateway is defended by a roofed wooden structure erected over it. This enclosure or gate house has four windows. All these wooden defences are set on fire by the Romans.
Their men form a guard to defend the hither end of the bridge. It is raised on piles driven into the bed of the river. A central opening seems to be left by a wider disposition of the piles, so that the navigation of the stream might not be hindered. The parapet is a stout upright railing with the usual diagonal bracing between. All the timber is carefully squared, and the piles are ornamented with capitals. A close piece of paling forms the parapet over the central part of the bridge, and on the further p140 bank a structure of close paling seems to indicate a continuation of the bridge over soft ground.
In the distance are seen a body of Dacians with a standard, pointing to the emperor whom they see without having been discovered, and prudently beating a retreat.
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