![]() Tacitus was one of those Italians of the sound old stock, who brought to the service of the Empire a loyalty and a devotion that recall the best days of the Republic. Did death overtake him, or had he lost the zest to write? ![]() Tacitus tells us that he had reserved for his old age the account of the happier age that followed the death of Domitian in 96. ![]() Both works have come down to us incomplete. 104 – 112), taking up the story at the death of Augustus in 14 and carrying it to the death of Nero in 68. ![]() Then came the major historical works, the `Histories` (c. The first literary works of Tacitus, the `Agricola` and `Germania`, came out in A. He married the daughter of Agricola in A. He addressed to him s number of his published letters – two of them giving a detailed account of the eruption of the eruption of Vesuvius for the use of Tacitus we know very little indeed. Pliny was proud to be regarded as a pupil of Tacitus and to be bracketed with him in popular repute. Both were successful orators, both distinguished men of letters. He was in intimate friend of Pliny the Younger. The son of a Roman knight, he himself rose to be a senator and passed through a normal senatorial career. ![]() Cornelius Tacitus was born was born in a country-town of Narbonensis about A. ![]()
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