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Dacians are seen destroying with axes and hammers the stone and other fortifications. Battlemented walls, gates, small temples, and other buildings, with pedimental roofs, and framed doors are distinguishable amongst the condemned works. They represent Zarmizegethusa, the principal stronghold of Decebalus in this part of his dominions, and p149 show how much the enemy had borrowed of the architecture and other arts of the Romans, and give some indication of the advancement made in these respects by Decebalus under former Roman emperors.
One of the conditions to be carried into execution by the Dacians was the surrender of lands and settlements, from which they had ejected the former inhabitants, to the original owners. Accordingly women carrying children at the breast; old men with children on their shoulders; a mother with an infant tied up and in a wooden cradle on her head, are returning either to quarters evacuated by the Dacians, or, as seems more in accordance with their dress and appearance, they are the unarmed Dacian population returning with their cattle.
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