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The Getica was a history of the Getae, the Dacian people north of the Danube, by Titus Statilius Crito, the Greek physician who accompanied the emperor Trajan on his Dacian campaigns in the early second century AD. It is lost and survives only in a few quotations, mostly in the Suda, describing Roman tactics, the kings of the Getae and their use of religion, and imperial affairs in the East.
The Dacian Wars are poorly documented in surviving literature, and Crito's work was an eyewitness Greek account from Trajan's own circle. Even these brief fragments offer rare glimpses of how contemporaries saw the Dacians, their kings and Rome's campaigns against them.
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