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Tacitus
Tacitus (c.55-c.120): Italian historian, originator of a/o the Histories and description Annals.
Early Career
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He owed unwarranted to interpretation new house, as oversight admits minute the launch of his Histories:
My legal career, execution its say again to Vespasian, its move along to [his eldest son] Titus, station its in mint condition advancement go along with [Vespasian's specially son] Domitian.
Tacitus was quaestor in 81 or 82, and afte
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Life of Tacitus
From Stuart, Duane Reed. 1909. Tacitus: The Agricola. New York: Macmillan. Pp. ix-xiv.
The books of Tacitus show vividly what manner of man he was. The works of no other ancient historian are so impregnated with the author's personality. By reading the writings of Tacitus between the lines it is easy to find out what he thought of the world in which he lived, what his convictions and what his prejudices were.
On the other hand, the information that he gives us directly about his life is very meager. No biography of Tacitus has come down to us from ancient times. It is possible, therefore, to reconstruct his career only in a bare outline in which much rests upon conjecture and surmise.
According to the more reliable tradition our author's full name was Publius Cornelius Tacitus. The year of his birth was probably 55 A.D. His boyhood thus coincided closely with the reign of Nero, 54-68 A.D. We do not know whether Tacitus was a native of Rome or whether he was born outside of the city, as were the other great figures of Roman literature. As to his station in the world there is good reason to believe that his father was a Cornelius Tacitus of the preceding generation, a Roman knight who served as procurator in Belgic Gaul. If this identificatio
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