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Tacitus (56–c. 120 A.D.)

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (tas’it-us). A great Latin historian; born about 56 A.D.; died about 120. He was an intimate friend of Pliny the Younger. His works are: ‘De Oratoribus’; ‘Agricola,’ a biography of his father-in-law, C. Julius Agricola; ‘Germania,’ or ‘On the Manners of the Germans.’ Of his ‘History’ only the first four and a half books are extant, giving the history of the years 69–96 A.D.; of the ‘Annals,’ beginning at the death of Augustus and ending at the death of Nero (14–68 A.D.), only the first four books, part of the fifth, the sixth, and from the middle of the eleventh to the middle of the sixteenth, are extant. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).

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