PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
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A great Latin historian; born about 54 A. D. He was an intimate friend of Pliny the Younger. The dialogue "De Oratoribus" is his earliest work; the "Agricola", a biography of his father-in-law, C. Julius Agricola, is interesting to English speaking readers on account of the fact that Agricola spent so much of his time in Britain; the "Germania", or "On the Manners of the Germans", is of great value for its description of early Germany. Of his "History" only the first four and a half books are e'tant, 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. Many editions of his works have been published. The latest English translation is by Church and Brodribb (London, 1876-77). He died about 117.
By Charles Dudley Warner
