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.

* Tacitus describes the great Fire: ( in English )

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.

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.

Tacitus however leaves open the possibility that she was deprived of nourishment while in prison and her death was not voluntary.

Tacitus described her as “ determined and rather excitable ”-" Agrippina knew no feminine weaknesses.

Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.

Tacitus claims that Nero considered poisoning or stabbing her, but felt these methods were too difficult and suspicious, so he settled on building a self-sinking boat.

* Tacitus: Critical view, considered her vicious and had a strong disposition against her due to her femininity and influential role in politics.

According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped.

Tacitus gives her a short speech in which she presents herself not as an aristocrat avenging her lost wealth, but as an ordinary person, avenging her lost freedom, her battered body, and the abused chastity of her daughters.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

But the rediscovery of the works of Tacitus during the Renaissance allowed Polydore Vergil to reintroduce her into British history as " Voadicea " in 1534.

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.

It is known that there was an interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus, and there is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife Ulpia Severina ruled in her own right before Tacitus ' election.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 14. 35 ), Boudica, queen of the Iceni and a number of other tribes in a formidable uprising against the occupying Roman forces, addressed her troops from a chariot in AD 61:

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.

The historians Tacitus and Cassius Dio depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Tiberius ’ decisions, the most notable instances being the case of Urgulania ( grandmother of Claudius's first wife Plautia Urgulanilla ), a woman who correctly assumed that her friendship with the empress placed her above the law, and Munatia Plancina, suspected of murdering Germanicus and saved at Livia's entreaty.

The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.

Tacitus describes him as an ‘ eminent ’ person.

Tacitus describes him as an ‘ eminent ’ person.

Octavia was an ‘ aristocratic and virtuous wife ' ( in Tacitus's words ), whereas Nero hated her and grew bored with her ( according to both Tacitus and Suetonius ), trying on several occasions to strangle her ( according to Suetonius ) and having affairs with a freedwoman called Claudia Acte and then with Poppaea Sabina.

According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

Tacitus immortalized the woman Epicharis for her part in the Pisonian conspiracy, where she attempted to gain the support of the Roman fleet and was instead arrested.

Poppaea Sabina the Elder was a distinguished woman, whom Tacitus praises as a wealthy woman and a woman of distinction.

Tacitus reports that Livilla was a remarkably beautiful woman, despite the fact she was rather ungainly as a child.

Tacitus, who wrote of the battle more than fifty years later, claims to relate Boudica's speech to her followers: " But now ," she said, " it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters.