trajan's victories
Preserved but no longer current.
It is a Roman Done column of marble, 127£ ft. high, covered with reliefs representing over 2,000 persons, be- sides many animals. It formed the model for the column in the Place Venddme, Paris, and is now surmounted by a statue of St. Peter.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “trajan's victories” mean?
It is a Roman Done column of marble, 127£ ft. high, covered with reliefs representing over 2,000 persons, be- sides many animals. It formed the model for the column in the Place Venddme, Paris, and is now surmounted by a statue of St. Peter.
Is “trajan's victories” formal or informal?
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