ABSTRACT
The accession of Cocceivs Nerva put an end to the restrictions on speech, and his adopted son and successor Trajan continued his policy in this respect. Nerva was something of a poet, Trajan wrote an account of his own Dacian wars, unhappily lost, and could certainly express himself clearly and concisely, as his surviving correspondence with the younger Pliny proves. Trajan was also the founder of a library, the Bibliotheca Vlpia in the Forum Traiani, and his relations to literary men, including Dion of Prusa, surnamed Chrysostomos, were friendly, even warm. Tacitus had intended to write the history of Nerva and Trajan, that is to continue his narrative down to his own old age.
