trajana

Updated: May 23, 2025

Let us now find a case, where, when a person was converted in the army, he left it, pleading this principle, as one among others, for his dereliction of it. Marcellus was a centurion in the legion called "Trajana."

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

On these ruins the Romans, ever ready to appropriate a good site, erected the city of Ulpia Trajana, connecting it by good roads with the existing Roman colonies at Karlsburg and Klausenburg.

Andrew F. Crosse - Round About the Carpathians

"Hagen of Troneg". Troneg is probably a corruption of the name of the Latin colony, "colonia Trajana", on the Lower Rhine, which as early as the fifth century was written as "Troja", giving rise to the legend that the Franks were descended from the ancient Trojans.

- The Nibelungenlied