Soldier-emperor under whom Rome reached its greatest extent, remembered by the Senate's own benediction as the best of emperors — felicior Augusto, melior Traiano.
"It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned."
"I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a subject."
It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned.
— Trajan
I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a subject.
"I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a s..."