The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.

At about this time, Tacitus, in his work Germania ( AD 98 ), describes the Lombards as such:

Tacitus then describes the torture of Christians.

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 '.

Parallels have been drawn between chapter 31 of Tacitus ' 1st century CE work Germania where Tacitus describes that members of the Chatti, a Germanic tribe, may not shave or groom before having first slain an enemy.

Tacitus describes her as the " wife of the Plautius who returned from Britain with an ovation ", which led John Lingard ( 1771 – 1851 ) to conclude, in his History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, that she was British ; however, this conclusion is a misinterpretation of what Tacitus wrote.

Tacitus describes the Chauci as ' peaceful ' in his Germania ( AD 98 ), but this is in a passage describing the non-coastal, inland Chauci, whereas sea raiders are necessarily a coastal people.

Cornelius Tacitus, though, specifically describes bogging as a form of ( sacralized ) capital punishment in his 1st century work Germania.

Tacitus describes the Germans hollowing out underground caves, covering them with manure and using them as storehouses and refuges from winter frosts.

There is a longstanding folklore belief that this battle took place at King ’ s Cross, simply because as a medieval village it was known as Battle Bridge ; Tacitus describes the site: " Suetonius chose a place with narrow jaws, backed by a forest " but does not mention the River Fleet, which flowed here.

The Roman historian Tacitus, in his book chronicling the life of his father-in-law, Agricola, describes how the Romans knew that Britain ( which Agricola was commander of ) was an island.

Tacfarinas traveled through North Africa collecting Roman soldiers left behind by the Third Augustan Legion ; Tacitus describes this process as a “ cherry picking ” of sorts, using soldiers who had already been trained by the Roman army and using their skills against their creator.

Tacitus in fact describes the fustrations experienced by the Romans during their campaign, noting the Caledonian preference for ambush tactics and their reluctance to offer a pitched battle.

Iamblichus describes Pythagoras visiting the mountain on account of its reputation for sacredness, stating that it was the most holy of all mountains, and access was forbidden to many, while Tacitus states that there was an oracle situated there, which Vespasian visited for a consultation ; Tacitus states that there was an altar there, but without any image upon it, and without a temple around it.

Tacitus describes her as ‘ the loveliest woman of her day ’.

From an ethnic point of view, Roman authors associated blond and reddish hair with the Gauls and the Germans: e. g., Virgil describes the hair of the Gauls as " golden " ( aurea caesaries ), Tacitus wrote that " the Germans have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames "; in accordance with Ammianus, almost all the Gauls were " of tall stature, fair and ruddy ".

In Tacitus ' Germania, the author mentions rumors of what he describes as " Pillars of Hercules " in land inhabited by the Frisii that had yet to be explored.

In Chapter 7, Tacitus describes their government and leadership as somewhat merit-based and egalitarian, with leadership by example rather than authority and that punishments are carried out by the priests.

In Chapter 9, Tacitus describes a form of folk assembly rather similar to the public Things recorded in later Germanic sources: in these public deliberations, the final decision rests with the men of the tribe as a whole.

Tacitus describes him as brave in action, ready of speech, clever at bringing others into odium, powerful in times of civil war and rebellion, greedy, extravagant, in peace a bad citizen, in war an ally not to be despised.

The narrative was told in great detail in Tacitus ' History, book iv, although, unfortunately, the narrative breaks off abruptly at the climax.

Larger-scale persecutions followed at the hands of the authorities of the Roman Empire, beginning with the year 64, when, as reported by the Roman historian Tacitus, the Emperor Nero blamed them for that year's great Fire of Rome.

In Tacitus ' Annals, Livia is depicted as having great influence, to the extent where she " had the aged Augustus firmly under control — so much so that he exiled his only surviving grandson to the island of Planasia ".

Even a great historian like Tacitus may have been unaware of the oldest of the three sisters, or perhaps the court deliberately obscured her identity because she was not a niece of Augustus.

The sources Orosius used have been investigated by Teodoro de Mörner ; besides the Old and New Testaments, he appears to have consulted Caesar, Livy, Justin, Tacitus, Suetonius, Florus and a cosmography, attaching also great value to Jerome's translation of the Chronicles of Eusebius.

Also, according to Tacitus, Serapis ( i. e. Apis explicitly identified as Osiris in full ) had been the god of the village of Rhacotis, before it suddenly expanded into the great capital of Alexandria.

Syme's next great work was his definitive two-volume biography of Tacitus ( 1958 ), his favorite among the ancient historians.

John Sterling pronounced Thirlwall " a writer as great as Thucydides and Tacitus, and with far more knowledge than they.

The loss of Bolingbroke's great speeches was regretted by William Pitt more than that of the missing books of Livy and Tacitus.

Nero took great interest in every detail of the project, according to Tacitus ' Annals, and oversaw the engineer-architects, Celer and Severus, who were also responsible for the attempted navigable canal with which Nero hoped to link Misenum with Lake Avernus.

* Tacitus ( Tegid ) great grandfather

Caecina is described by Tacitus as a man of handsome presence and boundless ambition, a gifted orator and a great favourite with the soldiers.

Although criticised by Tacitus as being reactive and defensive, he was probably acting on instructions from Claudius who did not consider the benefits of further conquest in difficult terrain to be great enough to warrant the risk.

Among other sources the Prefix " Irmin " is well documented in the from Irminsul " great pillar that supports all "/" Columna Universalis Sustenans Omni ", as described in Einhards ' Vita Karoli Magni ', and informed by Tacitus (~ 1st century ) via a mentioned Germanic tribe name of Hermiones ; The Old Saxon adjective irmin being synonymous to " great, strong ".

But while he views Tiberius as someone who had once been a great man, Tacitus considers Nero as simply despicable.

Tacitus sets the despotism of Domitian against the merits of Agricola: an incorruptible officer and a great commander, who fitted the model of the mos maiorum (" the custom of the forefathers ", the presumed superior morality of an earlier time ).

He is praised by Tacitus as a young and highly gifted ruler of great energy, but lacking in humanity.

In captivity he studied military science, and also geometry in Euclid, history in Tacitus, and architecture in Vitruvius, and planned his great work on war.

The first recorded official persecution of Christians on behalf of the Roman Empire was in 64 AD, when, as reported by the Roman historian Tacitus, Emperor Nero blamed Christians for the Great Fire of Rome.

Tacitus reports that after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 some in the population held Nero responsible and that to diffuse blame, he targeted and blamed the Christians ( or Chrestians ).