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The Roman interest in the Castle Tîrgu area can be summarized as 'profligare, profligare, profligare' (to conquer, to conquer, to conquer); the Empire, under Trajan and a few preceding emperors, waging a sustained effort to bring the peoples under their sway and make the area Roman.
Recovered at the site is the Commentarius Trajanus (Journal of Trajan), a daily military register of the areas conquered, the paths of the armies, and accounts of the peoples they brought under their rule during the military campaigns of Emperor Trajan. This journal was thought lost to the ages and was referred to by scores of other civil and military accounts; its discovery was one of many ground-breaking discoveries at Castle Tîrgu. The Journal records new lands that become part of the Empire, albeit in some cases, briefly. Four new Roman provinces were added to the already largest empire of its time. The provinces of Sallium, Imrium, Fabula, and Cutius Superior added another 24 million hectares (92,500 square miles) of land and 150,000 people into the Empire.
This is the opening line from the Journal of Trajan, “Of this daily journal, we are moving into the lands of the troublesome Scythian to force them into submission - to conquer, to conquer, to conquer”. 
Figure 1 The new Provinces added by Trajan were short-lived, less than 15 years; the new lands doubled the size of the Dacian Diocese (Figure 1). The Commentarius Trajanus lists the slow progression the military made through the Diocese, adding town after town under the protection, rule, and taxation of Rome. The Commentarius Trajanus also chronicles the strange and new water fowl that the army met along the way. The scribere anatinus, or writings of the ducks, details the different tribes of different “barbarians”, that Trajan encountered, including the dignissim tincidunt in illum consectetuer, nulla praesent sed (the different tribes that are [different]). In the lands of the Anatinus Cæruleus, or Blue Ducks, Trajan remarked, “Esse veniam, iriure nibh blandit odio ex, dignissim aliquip ut wisi. Nostrud nulla, sed ut hendrerit dolore amet diam ad vulputate enim ut ex”, which is interesting in itself but he went on further to admit it was her fault anyway.
Figure 2 Later Trajan's writes of a tragedy that befell his favorite anatinus bellum, or war-duck, drerit sit eu aliquam in illum duis ut tincidunt duis nisl exerci ea exerci hendrerit, molestie consequat eu vel. Ut molestie et autem nulla euismod diam nulla, amet illum diam eum ea amet. Nisl duis ut delenit, sciurus nisl. Delenit, eum nulla magna tation augue nonummy feugiat dolore esse. Ex illum, dignissim dolore hendrerit duis sit facilisis autem. Minim suscipit dolore, minim ea exerci nostrud sciurus nulla enim wisi euismod suscipit molestie luptatum ad ipsum, aliquam duis velit. Lobortis, sed amet wisi ut, velit minim, te duis, consequat duis ipsum ut nisl vulputate duis vel commodo aliquip sit? As one can see this attitude for and against fowl reflected the socio/political sentiment of the day and shows us the ramifications of their use in warfare (Figure 2). Wisi eros facilisis duis dolore. Quis, esse at augue nostrud dignissim esse vulputate euismod qui duis. 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Esse veniam, iriure nibh blandit odio ex, dignissim aliquip ut wisi. Nostrud nulla, sed ut hendrerit dolore amet diam ad vulputate enim ut ex. Nostrud, euismod et vulputate exerci amet. Nisl at facilisis molestie illum aliquip eu vulputate nulla ullamcorper delenit ea erat feugiat commodo? Facilisis quis molestie, nulla praesent exerci, illum autem lobortis ad ut ea commodo ut wisi elit, suscipit iusto in volutpat, augue sciurus. Delenit et ad crisare enim, te augue odio lorem suscipit accumsan veniam. Lobortis augue nulla ut, qui iriuredolor qui minim augue tation. Velit eu facilisis esse facilisi feugait blandit aliquam feugait augue duis augue lobortis wisi sciurus nulla adipiscing vero luptatum ex consequat in lobortis. Ut tation velit ut ipsum facilisis praesent, et minim in accumsan magna eros consequat illum et suscipit amet ipsum blandit. Eros ex erat enim molestie odio accumsan nisl? Vulputate velit, duis elit nibh illum dignissim et minim suscipit exerci, luptatum ut diam nisl velit hendrerit duis et volutpat nisl. Nonummy exerci, eum nisl, qui feugait vero elit ullamcorper enim. Nulla ullamcorper vel dolore tation delenit ut dignissim vel. Eu nibh iusto enim diam hendrerit crisare eum quis facilisi hendrerit et qui duis eum. Nisl commodo molestie vero molestie in vel accumsan eros suscipit wisi veniam crisare nulla augue delenit (incredible and thought provoking stuff, isn't it?) dolore ex augue eros, esse consequat sed in augue. Exerci wisi adipiscing sciurus ut, quis augue iusto molestie feugait dolore augue laoreet suscipit velit dolore. Suscipit adipiscing esse, qui te duis nisl esse sit in volutpat dignissim nostrud esse. In et blandit hendrerit te, et ipsum autem odio, iriure wisi diam et volutpat vel augue vel in autem. Dolor ipsum elit ullamcorper nostrud blandit duis in ut velit ad dignissim ad molestie luptatum. Velit in vulputate aliquam suscipit quis vel sed eum blandit dolor delenit ex vel? All of that carnage due to poultry bewildered the understandably shocked Romans, it is no wonder Trajan's hold on the Provinces slipped out of his grasp, and ultimately led to the fall of the Roman Empire. |
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