How did trajan die

The Roman architect Apollodorus of Damascus is mentioned in only two ancient sources, but we can also identify several of his buildings.

The first source is Cassius Dio:

[The emperor Hadrian] first banished and later put to death Apollodorus, the architect, who had built the various creations of Trajan in Rome: the forum, the odeum and the gymnasium.

The reason assigned was that he had been guilty of some misdemeanor, but the true reason was that once when Trajan was consulting him on some point about the buildings he had said to Hadrian, who had interrupted with some remark: "Be off, and draw your gourds.

You don't understand any of these matters." (It chanced that Hadrian at the time was pluming himself upon some such drawing.)

When he became emperor, therefore, he remembered this slight and would not endure the man's freedom of spee