place
Germania
Germany
also: Germania, Germany
The Roman command on the Rhine frontier. Trajan was governing Upper Germany when Nerva adopted him and the victory-title Germanicus was conferred.
Reading notes
- The Letters §3.5.4 Germany
The lands of the Germanic peoples east of the Rhine, theater of the wars the elder Pliny chronicled.
- Panegyric to Trajan §9 Germany
The Rhine command (Germania Superior), which Trajan governed as legate; it was there that news of his adoption and elevation reached him.