How To Use Tacitus In A Sentence
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M. 1845.] 37 Feralis umbra, is the expression of Tacitus: it is surely a very bold one.] 38 Tacit.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Porta del Popolo; and the Bustum, where the bodies of the emperor and his family were burnt, is supposed to have stood on the site of the church of the Madonna of that name.] [Footnote 263: The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace.] [Footnote 264: Those of his father Octavius, and his father by adoption,
De vita Caesarum
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In the days of his kittenhood I christened him "Tassie" after his mother; but as time sped on, and the name hardly comported with masculine dignity, this was changed to Tacitus, as more befitting his sex.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
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They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
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Agricola, stated Tacitus, invaded Caledonia because the northern tribes were acting in a threatening manner.
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Tacitus, contrived to make the dispeace permanent.
Prolegomena
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Mutants have stolen the Tacitus from me, I require it's return!
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In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
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Cornelius Tacitus, best known for his grimly disillusioned history of Rome's wicked emperors, was also the author of a short ethnographic treatise on the German tribes, known as the Germania.
Slate Magazine
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That author speaks of "the austere and masculine virtues of Latin, the sincerity and brevity of Roman speech;" and Tacitus is, beyond any doubt, the strongest, the austerest, the most pregnant of all the Romans.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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An even more comprehensive record was left by the Roman scholar and historian Tacitus.
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The title Rex Magnus usually implies kingship over a number of territories, supporting Tacitus.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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That they had long been under police regulation, and compelled to register with the aedile, is evident from a passage in Tacitus:
Satyricon
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Edit lol, sorry limulus; i caught your post right after you posted it! tacitus
Harriet, Sweet Harriet - The Panda's Thumb
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Augustus are forgotten the terrible invective of Tacitus and the sarcasm of Juvenal recall the cruelties and the terrors of Tiberius.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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Tacitus reports, that amongst certain barbarian kings their manner was, when they would make a firm obligation, to join their right hands close to one another, and intertwist their thumbs; and when, by force of straining the blood, it appeared in the ends, they lightly pricked them with some sharp instrument, and mutually sucked them.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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With the varus battle you're completely in the clear because it's so near in time to Tacitus' account.
Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England
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Cornelius Tacitus, who wrote at nearly the same period as Pliny, call them Florentia and Florentini; for, in the time of Tiberius, they were governed like the other cities of Italy.
The History of Florence
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Why do Roman sources Tacitus or the letters of Pliny not mention that this movement is seeking to historicize a mythical figure?
Mythicism and Inerrancy
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A contemporary critic of Tacitism even observed that Tacitus's prose style sounded like the clipped commands of a soldier, quite different from the orotund and peaceful prose of Cicero.
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Cicero is diffuse, and often affords little more than small-talk on abstract topics; Tacitus a brilliant but affected prosateur, Caesar a dull and uninspiring author.
From a College Window
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In Tacitus's obituary he is an unamiable novus homo (first man of his family to reach the consulship.
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Generally speaking , Tacitus historiography contains three narrative arrangements, scilicet macro view , middle view and micro view.
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee.
Waverley
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Since we have started with Tacitus' Annals, we'll work with that example where we can.
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Ambitious for power, the wily Sejanus now used his opportunity to pick away at the scab of resentment between Livia and Agrippina, attempting to foment the empress’s and her son’s antagonism toward Germanicus’s widow by trading on what Tacitus described as Agrippina’s “insubordination” and “ill-concealed maternal ambitions.”
Caesars’ Wives
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Tacitus doesn't mention a name, he only says:quidam in Britanniam rapti et remissi a regulis - some had been carried to Britain and were sent back by little kings reguli.
Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire
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Tacitus (a historian in Roman) tells us that in the time of Agricola, the Britons who were unfriendly toward the language of their conquerors, now became eager to speak it.
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Tacitus [103] styles Vespasian dux, which is not a strictly official title, but exactly describes his actual duty.
Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?
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` ` Why, you know, Tacitus saith ` _In rebus bellicis maxime dominatur Fortuna, + which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, ` Luck can maist in the mellee.
The Waverley
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(U) Tacitus tells us, that the power of Urgulania was io great, that fhe difdained to ap - pear as a witnefs in a certain caufe before the fenate » fo that a praetor was fent to examine her at her own houfe, though it had been always ufual, even io» ithe Veftal virgins, to attend the forum, and courts of juftice, whenever their evidence was required* to to Taniib of \tk\i.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time
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But to come back to Tacitus for a second - he shows the other side, the treasonable side of the clerks of the Roman Empire.
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Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius (our English Carew), with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire over East as well as West, and among more treasure-trove was a unique gold coin of Veric, ” the Bericus of Tacitus; as also the rare contents of a subterranean potter's oven, preserved to our day, and yielding several whole vases.
My Life as an Author
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.”
Waverley
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.”
Waverley
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[263] The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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But Tacitus did not write according to the canons of modern historiography.
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At ego cuius acies lacrimis mersa caligaret nec dinoscere possem, quaenam haec esset mulier tam imperiosae auctoritatis, obstipui uisuque in terram defixo quidnam deinceps esset actura, exspectare tacitus coepi.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Adeffe tibi — — iWflw tnaieliatem • — — conieciura mentium tenebamus; etfi non ad fdem patebat oculorrm* Tacitus M, Germ. c.
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This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
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So that as [3306] Tacitus said of the astrologers in Rome, we may say of them, genus hominum est quod in civitate nostra et vitabitur semper et retinebitur, they are a debauched company most part, still spoken against, as well they deserve some of them (for I so relish and distinguish them as fiddlers, and musicians), and yet ever retained.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Tacitus's remarks about the Germans not having intermarried with other tribes largely because of being cut off in their dark forests certainly gave credence to the Nazi claim that German blood was uniquely pure.
Hitler's Golden Book
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If I remember rightly Tacitus refers to Wales as being opposite Spain when he's drawing a comparison between the Silures and the Spanish tribes, and I think Julius Caesar refers to parts of southern Britain as being opposite Gaul.
Attacotti
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Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Tacitus was the greatest historian in Ancient Rome.
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We know from the writings of Tacitus that the weather in Britain was terrible.
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And first to begin of politicians, it hath ever been a principal axiom with them to maintain religion or superstition, which they determine of, alter and vary upon all occasions, as to them seems best, they make religion mere policy, a cloak, a human invention, nihil aeque valet ad regendos vulgi animos ac superstitio, as [6386] Tacitus and [6387] Tully hold.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Tacitus says that Augustus had a memoir, written in his own hand, which contained the revenues of the empire, the fleets and contributary kingdoms.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Fancy a woman of superlative beauty, of the highest courage and calmness, a woman of many resources, of genius, brought up by a petty princelet of a father, upon Tacitus and Sallust, and the tales of the great Malatestas, of Caesar Borgia and such-like!
Hauntings
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There is no such writing as this in any of the works of Tacitus, who, though curt and concise, is always remarkable for concinnity and clearness of expression as well as for perspicuity and consecutiveness of idea.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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Middle Ages, while others, such as Lucretius, Tacitus, and Manilius, although extant in a few but neglected medieval manuscripts, had to be rediscovered by the humanists.
HUMANISM IN ITALY
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Tacitus admired the Germanic tribes, Herodotus the barbarian Scythians, Ibn Khaldun the nomadic Beduin, and the Chinese the Mongols. [more ...]
Archive 2010-02-01
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This is testified not only in the Synoptics, but also in John, the new testament letters, Josephus, and Tacitus.
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The subject-matter of bks. 1-3, dealing with the civil wars between Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, is predominantly military, and it is for his handling of this material that Mommsen called Tacitus ‘most unmilitary of writers’.
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Julius Caesar, Livy and the geographer Strabo all had a go before Tacitus published his monograph in 98 A.D. But it was his account of these pure-bred, frighteningly tall, dazzlingly blond warriors with their piercing blue eyes, their chastity and their courage, that stuck in the German mind and, nearly two millennia later, bolstered the Nazis' fantasies that they were destined to be the Master Race.
Hitler's Golden Book
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I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to “that poor Holofernes.”
Les Miserables
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Tacitus described them as a strong and warlike nation.