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Tacitus

Also known as Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, P. Cornelius Tacitus, C. Cornelius Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus, Publius Cornelius Tacitus Caecina Paetus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a male historian, politician, military personnel, and poet from Ancient Rome. Born in 56 in Gallia Narbonensis, he was a member of the Cornelia gens and spoke Latin. He studied under Quintilian and held positions including tribune of the plebs, praetor, Roman consul, and senator. His notable works include the *Annals*, *Histories*, *Germania*, and *Agricola*.

Tacitus died in 120 in the Roman Empire. His writings are described in sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, *Pauly–Wissowa*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. He is also referenced in the *Dialogus de oratoribus*. Several of his quotes, such as "Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium," appear in *Wikiquote*. His works are available through the *Open Library* and are referenced by thousands of other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 55

Top works

The Histories Vol. I of Four (Loeb Classical Library, Books I-III)
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
Dialogue on Orators
Complete Tacitus Collection

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Total plays: 964

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117) Roman Historian, author of the Histories and Annals. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tacitus">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Annals
· 1931 · cited 25x
Histories
· 1925 · cited 17x
Agricola
· 1914 · cited 11x
Dialogus
· 1914 · cited 11x
Annals
· 2008 · cited 9x

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Quotes

“Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.”
“Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”
“Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.”
“Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.”
“Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis.”
“The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us, is seldom entered by a sail from our world.”

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Key facts

Academic.name: Cornelius Tacitus
Academic.image: Wien- Parlament-Tacitus.jpg
Academic.death_date: (aged approx. 64)
Academic.occupation: Historian, politician
Academic.main_interests: History, biography, oratory
Academic.period: Silver Age of Latin
Academic.discipline: History
Academic.notable_works: AgricolaAnnalsGermaniaHistories

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Tacitus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Historiae Augustae

Bibliothecae historicae libri VI

Cornelius Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus, et Apuleius longobardis characteribus exarati

Cornelius Tacitus

Aringa ... recata in Italiano da diversi volgarizzatori antichi e moderni

Gli Annali (etc.) Nuovamente trad. di Latino in Lingua Toscana da Giorgio Dati

Gli Annali De' Fatti, E Guerre De' Romani, così civili, come esterne; seguite dalla morte di Cesare Augusto, per fino all'Imperio di Vespasiano ... Da Giorgio Dati Fiorentino nouvamente tradotti di Latino in lingua Toscana

(Oeuvres) avec des notes politiques et historiques (Par Amelot de la Houssaye)

Obras (traduzidas en la lengua espanola por Fray Leandro de S. Martin.)

Les Oeuvres ... illustrees en ceste derniere edition de chronologies, genealogies, sommaires et annotations. Et l'histoire romaine de C. Vellejus Paterculus. Nouvellement traduite en francois par I. B. (etc.)

Works translated by Benedetto Davanzati with the supplements of Gabriele Brotier translated by Raffaele Pastori

Opere. Tradotte Da B. Davanzati Colle Giunte E Supplimenti Dell'Ab. Gabriele Brotier. Tradotti Dall' Ab. Raf. Pastore

Sämmtliche Werke. Uebers. durch Johann Samuel Müller.

Obras

Works, Annals, Histories, Costumi de “Germani, E Vita Di Agricola; Illvstrate With Notable Aphorisms by Mr. D. Baldassar” Alamo Varienti, Transported from Castigliana to Tuscany by D. Girolamo Canini D'Anghiari... Improved and corrected nouvo (etc.)

Opere recate in lingua italiana

Opere storiche di C. Cornelio Tacito ; tradotte da B[ernardo] Davanzati colle giunte e supplimenti di Gabriele Brotier tradotti dall' Ab. Raf[faele] Pastore

Dziela wszystkie. (Sämmtliche Werke ins Polnische übers. von Adam Stanislaus Naruszewicz hrsg. von Thaddaeus Mostowski).

Germania, text, about., Explanation of Fr. Dor. Gerlach and Wilhelm Wackernagel.

Las obras, traducidas de Latin en Castellano por Emanuel Sueyro

Las Obras Traducidas de Latin en Castellano por Emanuel Sveyro

Les Oeuvres ... Les Annales Et Histoires des choses advenues en l'Empire de Rome depuis le trespas d'Auguste. La Description Des Peuples De de Germanie ... La Vie De Jules Agricola ... Le tout traduit du Latin, et nouvellement reveu et corrigé

The Roman Wars from Plutarch, Caesar, Vellejus, Suetonius, Tacitus. Tacitus Germania

Annalium ab excessu Augusti sive historiae Augustae libri sedecim partim ad exemplar mss. recogniti per Beatum Rhenanum. Libellus de Germanorum populis; dialogus de oratoribus denique vita Julii Agricolae non solum emaculatius prodeunt sed et explicatius adjunctis scholiis (etc.)

Agrikola. Urschrift, Übers., Anmerk. u. eine Abhandlung über die Kunstform der antiken Biographie durch Georg Ludwig Walch.

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Life
Family and early life
Public life, marriage, and literary career
Works
History of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus
The ''Histories''
The ''Annals''
Monographs
''Germania''
''Agricola'' (''De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae'')
''Dialogus''
Literary style
Approach to history
Prose
Sources
Influence
Editions
Teubner
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
External links

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.

His two major historical works, Annals (Latin: ) and the Histories (Latin: ), originally formed a continuous narrative of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus (14 AD) to the end of Domitian's reign (96 AD). The surviving portions of the Annals focus on the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tacitus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Tacitus