Tacitus

According to Tacitus Tacitus Annales IV.5 there were roughly as many auxiliaries as there were legionaries.

As Tacitus vividly describes, error However, Tacitus' portrayal of a tyrannical, vengeful emperor has been challenged by several modern historians.

From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.

He is generally agreed to have based his account on that of Tacitus, but he simplifies the sequence of events and adds details, such as the calling in of loans, that Tacitus does not mention.

Levick (1990); also as opposed to the murder of Augustus, which is only found in Tacitus and Dio where he quotes Tacitus.

Tacitus describes them both in his Histories : *Vitellius ended the practice of Centurions selling furloughs and exemptions of duty to their men, a change Tacitus describes as being adopted by 'all good emperors'.

Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germany of Tacitus, p. 48. This image portrayed them as a fearsome people worthy of Rome's full attention.

Writing in the 1st century AD, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela called the islands Orcades, as did Tacitus in AD 98, claiming that his father-in-law Agricola had "discovered and subjugated the Orcades hitherto unknown" Tacitus (c. 98) Agricola.

Certainly not alone in his worries, Tacitus agreed with Livy, seeing in the Germanic peoples of Europe the hope of regeneration and rebirth.

In the Belmont Stakes, Preakness winner War of Will (2-1) and Tacitus, the 9-5 morning line favorite, will attract the lion’s share of the betting.

Points leader Tacitus will start from the No. 8 post with 10-1 odds as he tries to give trainer Bill Mott his first Derby victory.

Prior to Tacitus’ time, Rome had been a (509-27 B.C.). In that system magistrates were elected and alternated annually.

Since finishing second to Tacitus in the Wood Memorial, Tax has trained sharply for the Kentucky Derby, suggesting that he’s ready to run a career-best.

A careful reading of Tacitus provides one solution.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina’s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.

According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire.

According to Tacitus, the "greatest disgrace that can befall" a warrior of a clan among the Germanic tribes was the abandonment of their shield during combat, as this almost certainly resulted in social isolation.

According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero returned to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.

Adolf von Harnack argued that Chrestians was the original wording, and that Tacitus deliberately used Christus immediately after it to show his own superior knowledge compared to the population at large.