origin, but their theories are at war against each other. The fact is that the first ethnical stem upon which certain other races have been grafted to form the present Rumanian people, may be considered as the thraco-getic of which Herodot spoke; a fact which serious modern research has fully endorsed. Probably the Dacians, that powerfully organized state which checked the earlier expansions of the Roman Empire to the East, were the descendents of this more primitive people. A race of staunch, warlike men, such as the Trajans Column at Rome depicts them, these warriors, whose swords put up an effective barrier to the flood of advancing Scythic cavalry, were finally overcome by the superior strategy of the Romans. At the beginning of the 2nd Century A. D. the Latin civilisation, with all that implies, ruled this their latest province,