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Podcast: Latin from Zero 1 Trajan's Column
Original Inscription
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVSIMP CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F NERVAETRAIANO AVG GERM DACICO PONTIFMAXIMO TRIB POT XVII IMP VI COS VI P PAD DECLARANDVM QVANTAE ALTITVDINISMONS ET LOCVS TANTIS OPERIBVS SIT EGESTVS
Complete Translation
The Senate and People of Rome dedicate this monument to Emperor Caesar Trajan, son of the divine Nerva, Augustus, conqueror of Germany and Dacia, Chief Priest, holder of tribunician power for the seventeenth time, acclaimed imperator six times, consul six times, father of the country, to show how great the hill and site were that were removed by such…
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