Tomyris
A queen of the Massagetae, by whom Cyrus was slain in battle, в. c. 529.
Trajanus, M. Ulpius Crinitus. A Roman emperor born at Ithaca. His services to the empire recommended him to the notice of the emperor Nerva, who adopted him as his son, and invested him with the purple. The actions of Trajan were those of a benevolent prince. He died in Cilicia, in August, A. D. 117, in his sixty-fourth year, and his ashes were taken to Rome and deposited under a stately column which he had erected.