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Tacitus


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Gaul
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born perhaps 55
died perhaps 120

From the death of Augustus in 14 Histories and Annals , greatest works of Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman public official, concern the period to Domitian in 96.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus served as a senator of the empire. The major portions examine the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those four emperors, who reigned in the year. They span the empire to the years of the first Jewish war in 70. One enormous four-books long lacuna survives in the texts.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus discusses oratory in dialogue format in Dialogus de oratoribus , Germania in De origine et situ Germanorum , and biographical notes about Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law, primarily during his campaign in Brit
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The Annals of Imperial Rome

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The Agricola and The Germania

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The Histories

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Germania

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Complete Works of Tacitus

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The Annals/The Histories

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Agricola

3.72 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 98 — 341 editions
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The Histories I-II

4.10 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 120 — 54 editions
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Agricola / Germania / Dialo...

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The Madness of Nero

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Selections from Agricola Histories vol 1, books I-III
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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
― Tacitus

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus



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