ADRIAN. 57 niccffllvely prxtor, governor of Pannonia, and ronfu]. After the fiege o( Atra in Arabia w;is rai'ed, Trajan, who l,.,', fufed both, and deiired that Trajan's image might triumph. 3 , The following year he went to Maefia, tooppofe the Sannatae. Notes on the In his abfence feverai pei fons of gieat worth were put to death ; H and though he protefted he had given no orders for that pur-g ' t j q pofe, yet the odium thereof fell chiefly upon him. N prince A^i-no. travelled more than Adrian; there being hardly on? province ! ' '- b - 6 9- in the empire which he did not vifit. Jn 120, he went into Gaul, and from thence to Britain, where he took care to ha- /' a wall or rampart built, as a defence againft thofe who would not fubmit to the Roman government [B]. in 121, here- turned (A) F.utropt>s is of opinion, thifthe *' ever as far as Yo;k, vvhe-t b e yieldir g up of thefe cnnquefls, proceeded < from Adrian's envying T-ajan's gWy, lib. viii. p. 90. Bu Spartian fuppofes that the impoflibility or difficulty of keeping tiie conqueicd provinces deter- rnined Adrian tu refign them. Jn Auti- [B] " In the mean time," f.>ys Mr. Rapin, " the Calrdonians continuing
- ' their inroads, the empt-ror Adrian re-
" faUed to go over in perlon, and fub- " due thrfe fierce and trouMelome peo- diverted from his inn conquift by the oefcription fume o! t lok'.icrs c found there, who had fervt-d under .^gricola, gave him or th: coun-rv. In hop^s, the'f fcrf, of keeping lli-.n quiet by en arging their houmJs, ne delivered up to the C ilrdnnia-s all the lands l-.iae betw-'en il.e :v I rithi and the Ty. e j and at the IJILC . , to fecore the Porr-an p r ovi ,cr I, 1.1 their incu-finn 11 , threw up a ran put of earth, covered wiih c gri-en t r>, " pi-. Upon his arrival, they retired " ftom the mouth of tie T yne ro bi I- ' towards the north : he advanced how. C! wayfi:b, eighty milv3 in length, a-d quilt
