Tacitus

American  

[tas-i-tuhs] / ˈtæs ɪ təs /

noun

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

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Tacitus British  

/ 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

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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.

From Science Magazine • May 16, 2024

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.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023

“Dispecta est et Thule” — roughly meaning “Even Thule was seen” — wrote the historian Tacitus in the “Agricola,” his A.D.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

We know all this because the nephew wrote about the eruption and its aftermath some 30 years later in a pair of letters to the great Roman historian Tacitus.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2019

“Into politics, of which I have taken final leave....I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much happier.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis