Tacitus

[tas-i-tuhs]

noun

1. Publius Cornelius a.d. c55–c120, Roman historian.

Tacitus

/ ˈtæsɪtəs /

noun

1. Publius Cornelius (ˈpʌblɪəs kɔːˈniːljəs). ?55–?120 _ad , Roman historian and orator, famous as a prose stylist. His works include the Histories, dealing with the period 68–96, and the Annals, dealing with the period 14–68

Example Sentences

For Roman-era writers such as Tacitus, the region was beyond the edge of the civilized world, known only through unreliable second-hand reports.

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Tacitus wrote about 60 years later that Agrippina then tried to rule Rome through Nero but that the ungrateful child had her murdered in C.E.

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Classical Roman author Tacitus wrote his ethnographic work “Germania,” about the Germanic peoples living on the fringes of the Roman Empire in Northern Europe, around 98 A.D.

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And I‘m reading the “Annals” of Tacitus.

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Some of us prefer a quotation from Tacitus that the late Bernard Fall was fond of citing: “Where they make a desert they call it peace.”

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