« The Goths [Getae] were not, therefore, so short of people to teach them philosophy. Wherefore the Goths [Getae] were always superior to the barbarians and almost equal to the Greeks. » Iordanes, Getica, 39-40 ; Fontes II, p. 413, 417
"The dignified image of the Dacians was placed in the most prestigious place of the Roman world, in the heart of Rome, the Forum of Trajan. This is a very important and valuable fact for the history of the ancient representations of the Dacians in Roman art and for the history of the culture of Romania."