Aurelian's Priority List

Aurelian carved out of moetia a new province, which he dubbed dacia. He could plausibly argue that he had not abandoned dacia, so much as movedit south the danube. But there was no mistaking the fact that good old terminus, the implacable roman god of boundaries, who once planted refused to be moved, had now been moved. That did not bode well for the future - probably because Aurelian was not totally insensible to the optics of abandoning a fully incorporated province.