mutiny by the Praetorian Guard. However, this view has been challenged: when discussing the details of Nerva's choice of Trajan as an heir, John D. Grainger simply omits all mention of Groag's theory. Werner Eck notes that Sura was governor of Germania Inferior from the year 96 to 98; Nerva announced his choice of an heir in October 97. During the first campaign against the Dacians, after the Second Battle of Tapae, Trajan dispatched Sura and Tiberius Claudius Livianus to negotiate peace with the Dacian king Decebalus. Nothing was accomplished, since Decebalus did not meet them, but sent envoys instead on this occasion. Nevertheless, because the Romans captured key strongpoints in the mountains and Decebalus' sister was captured, the Dacians agreed to the terms the Romans demanded and peace was agreed to between the Romans and Dacians. For this, Sura was appointed to a second consulate as consul ordinarius in 102 as the colleague of Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus. He also participated in Trajan's second campaign against the Dacians; while his role in that war is undetermined, it was important enough for Sura to be awarded triumphal ornaments and a third consulate in 107 with Quintus Sosius Senecio as his colleague. Sura vanishes from the public record after his third consulate; Syme believes he died in 108. According to Cassius Dio, Trajan gave him a public funeral and had a statue erected in Sura's memory. See also Licinia gens Baths of Licinius Sura References Licinius Sura Roman governors of Germania Inferior Sura, Lucius Romans from Hispania 1st-century Romans 2nd-century Romans 1st-century births 2nd-century deaths