Editing Bastarnae (section)

==== First and second centuries ====
[[File:AdamclisiMetope37.jpg|thumb|right|200px|War scene of the [[Tropaeum Traiani]] (c. 109 AD): a [[Roman legionary]] fighting with a [[Dacians|Dacian]] warrior, while a Germanic warrior (Bastarnae?), who has a [[suebian knot]], is wounded on the ground.]]

It appears that in the final years of Augustus' rule, the Bastarnae made their peace with Rome. The ''[[Res Gestae Divi Augusti]]'' ("Acts of the divine Augustus", 14 AD), an inscription commissioned by Augustus to list his achievements, states that he received an embassy from the Bastarnae seeking a treaty of friendship.<ref>Res Gestae Aug. 31</ref> It appears that a treaty was concluded and apparently proved remarkably effective, as no hostilities with the Bastarnae are recorded in surviving ancient sources until c. 175, some 160 years after Augustus' inscription was carved. But surviving evidence for the history of this period is so thin that it cannot be excluded that the Bastarnae clashed with Rome during it.{{refn|group=Note|name=cnoteg|The [[Julio-Claudian]] period and the subsequent [[Year of the Four Emperors|Roman Civil War of 68–9]] (until AD 69) is reasonably well-covered by Tacitus' ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annales]]'' (although substantial parts are missing) and ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Historiae]]''. But the loss of Tacitus' narrative for the entire [[Flavian dynasty|Flavian]] period (69–96) and of [[Ammianus Marcellinus]]'s continuation until 353, as well as of most of [[Dio Cassius]]'s History (up to 229), leaves a massive gap in our knowledge of the political history of the early empire, which is only scantily filled by inferior chronicles such as the ''[[Historia Augusta]]'', inscriptions and other evidence}} The Bastarnae participated in the [[Dacian Wars (disambiguation)|Dacian Wars]]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> of [[Domitian]] (86–88) and [[Trajan]] (101–102 and 105–106), fighting on both wars on the Dacian side<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coarelli |first1=Filippo |title=La colonna Traiana |date=1999 |publisher=Colombo |isbn=8886359349 |page=99 |url=https://www.unilibro.it/libro/coarelli-filippo/la-colonna-traiana/9788886359344 |access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>

In the late second century, the ''Historia Augusta'' mentions that in the rule of [[Marcus Aurelius]] (161–180), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the [[Costoboci]] took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube (the [[Marcomannic Wars]]) to invade Roman territory.<ref>Historia Augusta ''Marcus Aurelius'' II.22</ref>