While Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum after the Germanic people of the Suebi, the first to name it also as the Baltic Sea ( Mare Balticum ) was eleventh century German chronicler Adam of Bremen.

Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).

Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.

Considering Dio must have read Tacitus, it is worth noting he mentions nothing about suicide ( which was also how Postumus and Nero ended their lives ).

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

" In addition to the Judeo-Roman or Judeo-Hellenic historians Artapanus, Eupolemus, Josephus, and Philo, a few non-Jewish historians including Hecataeus of Abdera ( quoted by Diodorus Siculus ), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make reference to him.

Here is also worth noting what Tacitus stated in his work Germania about capital punishment amongst the Germanic folk ; that none could be flogged, imprisoned or executed, not even on order of the warlord, without the consent of the priest ; who was himself required to render his judgement in accordance with the will of the god they believe accompanies them to the field of battle In the same source this god is stated being the chief deity.

Van Voorst has stated that it was unlikely for Tacitus himself to refer to Christians as Chrestianos i. e. " useful ones " given that he also referred to them as " hated for their shameful acts ".

Pilate was the Roman governor of Iudaea province at the time, and he is explicitly linked with the condemnation of Jesus not only by the Gospels but also by Tacitus, ( see Responsibility for the death of Jesus for details ).

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

D ' Alembert was also a Latin scholar of some note and worked in the latter part of his life on a superb translation of Tacitus, from which he received wide praise including that of Denis Diderot.

The ancient Roman sources, particularly Tacitus and Suetonius, portray Messalina as extremely lustful, but also insulting, disgraceful, cruel, and avaricious ; they claimed her negative qualities were a result of her inbreeding.

Florianus, the half-brother of Tacitus, was also proclaimed successor by his soldiers, but was killed after an indecisive campaign.

Tacitus charges that Livia was not altogether innocent of these deaths and Cassius Dio also mentions such rumours, but not even the gossipmonger Suetonius, who had access to official documents, repeats them.

There are also rumors mentioned by Tacitus and Cassius Dio that Livia brought about Augustus ' death by poisoning fresh figs.

The royal powers of both tribes were also alike, according to Tacitus, in being supported by Roman silver.

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.

Accounts are also inconsistent on who ordered the death and these existed almost from the start, when Tiberius immediately and publicly disavowed the act upon being notified of it ( Tacitus, Ann.

Virgil's Aeneid, in many respects, emulated Homer's Iliad ; Plautus, a comic playwright, followed in the footsteps of Aristophanes ; Tacitus ' Annals and Germania follow essentially the same historical approaches that Thucydides devised ( the Christian historian Eusebius does also, although far more influenced by his religion than either Tacitus or Thucydides had been by Greek and Roman polytheism ); Ovid and his Metamorphoses explore the same Greek myths again in new ways.

New editions of Orelli's Tacitus and Horace were also due to him.

Annals and histories might also include sections pertaining to these subjects, but annals are chronological in structure, and Roman histories, such as those of Livy and Tacitus, are both chronological and offer an overarching narrative and interpretation of events.

According to the ancient historian Tacitus, Sejanus was also a former favourite of the wealthy Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose daughter may have been Sejanus ' first wife Apicata.

There is sketchy evidence of a consort, in German named Zisa: Tacitus mentions one Germanic tribe who worshipped " Isis ", and Jacob Grimm pointed to Cisa / Zisa, the patroness of Augsburg, in this connection.

* Tacitus is named proconsul of the province of Asia ( 110 – 113 ).

Probably the name Arbiter is derived from Tacitus ' reference to a courtier named Petronius as Nero's arbiter elegantiae or fashion adviser ( Annals 16. 18. 2 ).

It is named after Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, the ancient Roman historian.

As with Claudius, poison was the means to Torquatus ' end ; the epitomator of Dio Cassius ' ' Roman History ' even tells us that Agrippina sent Torquatus the same poison with which she dispatched her late husband ( 61. 4 ); and Tacitus informs us that the lethal drug was administered by a Roman of the Equestrian class named P. Celer, with the aid of a freed slave named Helius.

To the southeast of Tacitus is a long chain of craters named the Catena Abulfeda.

The Lemovii () were a Germanic tribe, only once named by Tacitus in the late 1st century.

But as an author named Cornelius ( Tacitus ) informs us, it is gathered in the innermost islands of the ocean, being formed originally of the juice of a tree ( whence its name succinum ), and gradually hardened by the heat of the sun.

Five years after this third world war, an artificial intelligence named " LEGION " arises, with Kane promptly placing a secret army of cyborg soldiers-known as the " Marked of Kane "- under the entity's command in order to reclaim the mysterious Tacitus device from GDI's Cheyenne Mountain facility.

Twente is most likely named after the Tuihanti or Tvihanti, a Germanic tribe that settled in the area and was mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus.

Tacitus ' statement that they were " German in their way of life and types of dwelling " implies a sedentary bias, but their close relations with the Sarmatians, who were nomadic, may indicate a more nomadic lifestyle, as does the wide geographical range of their attested inhabitation.

" Fichte located Germanness in the supposed continuity of the German language, and based it on Tacitus, who had hailed German virtues in Germania and celebrated the heroism of Arminius in his Annales.

Jacob Grimm lectured on legal antiquities, historical grammar, literary history, and diplomatics, explained Old German poems, and commented on the Germania of Tacitus.

In the 1st century AD, sterling qualities such as those enumerated above by Fénelon ( excepting perhaps belief in the brotherhood of man ) had been attributed by Tacitus in his Germania to the German barbarians, in pointed contrast to the softened, Romanized Gauls.

According to German philologist Maximilian Ihm ( 1863 – 1909 ), Tacitus writes that the Chatti were hostile and subjugated the Cherusci but were " pacified " between 4 and 6 CE.

The first major public figure to speak of a German people in general, was the Roman figure Tacitus in his work Germania around 100 AD.

** History of the German Wars, some quotations survive in Tacitus ' Annals and Germania

The Treveri boasted of their German origin, according to Tacitus, in order to distance themselves from " Gallic laziness " ( inertia Gallorum ).

But Tacitus does not include them with the Vangiones, Triboci or Nemetes as " tribes unquestionably German ".

The hero is a young German professor, who is so wrapped up in his search for a manuscript by Tacitus that he is oblivious to an impending tragedy in his domestic life.

Origins of the name Harjavalta go back to Chariovald, a German warrior chief quoted by the Roman historian Tacitus.

Tacitus in his Agricola, chapter XI ( c. 98 AD ) described the Caledonians as red haired and large limbed, which he considered features of Germanic origin: “ The reddish ( rutilae ) hair and large limbs of the Caledonians proclaim a German origin ”.

The eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon, interpreting Tacitus, Germania § 40, detected a parallel among the pagan German tribes who worshipped a goddess of the earth ( identified by modern scholars with Nerthus ) who in Gibbon's interpretation resided at the island of Rügen, who annually travelled to visit the tribes.

Of the latter Tacitus says: " In geographical position they are on the German side, in heart and soul they are with us.

Tacitus says that both of them " go out of their way to claim German descent.

According to Germanic legend and Tacitus, Hercules once visited German soil and they sang of him first of all heroes.

In 1904 he became a member of the corps of scholars preparing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a unique distinction for an American Latinist, as was the publication of his critical edition, with German commentary, of Tacitus ' Agricola in 1902 by the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung of Berlin.

Hints and reminiscences of Tacitus appear in French and English literature, as well as German and Italian, from the 12th to the 14th century, but none of them are at all certain.

He claimed that this German name had been Latinized into the tribal name Herminones mentioned in Tacitus and that it actually meant the heirs of the sun-king: an estate of intellectuals who were organised into a priesthood called the Armanenschaft.

While Arminius had been known about in Germany since the rediscovery of the writings of Tacitus in the 15th century, German Protestant intellectuals in the first half of the 18th century christened him " Hermann the German " and promoted his status from that of a local tribal leader with family ties to Rome to that of a hero of German resistance to " Roman " ( i. e. Papal ) authority ; the 19th century added another layer of meaning, namely Pan-German unity and resistance to Revolutionary and Napoleonic Romance-language France.