person
Decebalus
also: the king
King of the Dacians, the antagonist of Trajan's two Dacian wars (AD 101–106); driven from his palace and to suicide. Not named by Pliny, who calls him only 'the king'.
Reading notes
- The Letters §8.4.2 king
Decebalus, king of the Dacians, driven from his palace and to suicide at the end of Trajan's second Dacian war.
- The Letters §10.74.1 Decebalus
King of Dacia and Trajan's great adversary in the Dacian Wars; said to have sent the captive Callidromus to the Parthian king.