Battle (2nd) of Tapae - Dacian War help

**Urg** · 06-25-2009, 08:20

Yes I think there's only a fragment (one line) remaining:

inde Berzobim, deinde Aizi processimus

I think the text is called Dacica, or maybe commentarii de bello dacico.

**gamerdude873** · 06-26-2009, 04:14

geez that sucks. One line doesn't do me a whole lota good. What rotten luck for me! If only it survived, that would have been an epic story from the high empire from one of Rome's greatest emperor's

On a side note, its kinda funny how english is so backwards. I wrote Gallica Bello instead of Bello Gallica and likewise for Dacian. No wonder why loan words always get messed up. got idiots like me screwing with em. (I mean just look at the word Emperor. How did we get that from Imperator?!!?)

**Urg** · 06-26-2009, 05:13

I think bellum gallicum is the normal way to write "gallic war", but the beautiful thing about latin is you can write it either way, so gallicum bellum is perfectly ok - unlike English which has is a very definite order to words, latin doesn't have a strict order.

So "Caesar wrote a book on the Gallic war" would usually be "Caesar a book on the Gallic war wrote" in classical Latin, but there's nothing wrong with "A book wrote on the Gallic war Caesar".

So you didn't screw it at all.

**gamerdude873** · 06-28-2009, 04:31

I guess if you think about it, word order can be messed around with any language... but still, The Sheriff of Rottingham comes to mind (Robin Hood: Men in Tights). Order not Word I Urg Need!

...Except only more so! Anywho...

Back to the topic. Anyone have any knowledge about this or should I ask elsewhere? (Have ask should Knowledge I or elsewhere any this Anyone about?)

**DaciaJC** · 06-28-2009, 19:25

Actually, I'm commencing work on a series of custom battles depicting both Dacian Wars, and found a few decent sources (some are in Romanian). Unfortunately, though, I accidentally deleted the links to them when I was clearing out my bookmarks. I'll take me a bit to find them all again.