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.

* 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.

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.

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.

Tacitus was one of the first to ask whether such powers were given to the head of state, because the citizens wanted to give them, or whether they were given for other reasons ( for example, because one had a deified ancestor ).

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 ".

According to Tacitus, writing a generation later, these were in fact the original tribe to be called Germani, and all other uses of the term extended from them.

According to Tacitus, among them were the Batavians, until an internal quarrel drove them out, to take up new lands at the mouth of the Rhine.

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.

Tacitus in his Annals writes of them being wild, savage and impatient, disobedient even to their own kings.

Tacitus, in his book Germania, says that in his time the Nervii believed that their Germanic ancestry distinguished them from the weaknesses of the Gauls.

Scholars such as Schütte and Kendrick have pointed out that there was probably an even earlier mention of the people of Öland in 98 AD, by Tacitus, who called them the " Aviones ":

" Tacitus also mentions that some writers ( now lost ) claimed Nero poisoned her, though Tacitus does not believe them.

Modern historians, though, keep in mind Suetonius, Tacitus and Cassius Dio's severe bias against Nero and the impossibility of them knowing private events, and hence recognize that Poppaea may have simply died due to fatal miscarriage complications or in childbirth ( in which case the second child also did not survive ).

Private letters commending Tacitus are quoted from the senators ' Autronius Tiberianus ' and ' Claudius Sapilianus ' ( no reason to believe in them, either ).

One, based on Tacitus, places them in Central Sweden, what may have been a part of Kvenland in the 1st century, according to medieval sources.

Tacitus considered them similar to Suiones ( ancestors of modern Swedes ):

He goes on to propose that Togodumnus, having submitted to the Romans, was appointed by them as a friendly king over the territories of the Regini, the Atrebates, the Belgae and the Dobunni, becoming the loyal king referred to by Tacitus.

The priests then sorted them, retaining only those that appeared true to them ( Tacitus, Annales, VI, 12 ).

The seven tribes are surrounded by rivers and forests and, according to Tacitus, there is nothing particularly worthy of comment about them as individuals, yet they are particularly distinguished in that they all worship the goddess Nerthus, and provides an account of veneration of the goddess among the groups.

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

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

The historian Tacitus painted an unforgettably dark picture of the early empire in his Histories and Annals, both written in the early 100s.

Tacitus in his Germania and Ptolemy recorded the Lugii ( Lygii ) in Magna Germania, and mentioned their town of Lugidunum, which has been attributed to both Legnica and Głogów.

Caratacus ' name appears as both Caratacus and Caractacus in manuscripts of Tacitus, and as Καράτακος and Καρτάκης in manuscripts of Dio.

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

The office of priesthood became hereditary in the families of both Cinyras and Tamiras, but the descendants of the latter were eventually displaced by those of the former ; in the times of Tacitus, only the priest of Cinyras ' line was consulted.

Romans, both men and women, were expected to uphold the virtue of pudicitia, a complex ideal that was explored by many ancient writers, including Livy, Valerius Maximus, Cicero and Tacitus.

Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since been lost, but which is referred to extensively ( both directly and otherwise ) in the works of Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar and Tacitus ' Germania.

Inspired by the rise of fascist regimes in Germany and Italy, and following Tacitus in both literary style and pessimistic insight, the work challenged prevailing attitudes concerning the last years of the Roman Republic.

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.

But Tacitus ' first reference to him in the Annals relates to the following year, when he surprised both friends and enemies by speaking against a routine motion in the senate, a request by the Syracusans to exceed the statutory number of gladiators at their games.

* Julius Naso, a friend of both the younger Plinius and Tacitus, who were interested in his success as a candidate for public office.

* Fabius Justus, a distinguished rhetorician, and a friend of both Tacitus and the younger Plinius.

John Dominic Crossan considers the passage important in establishing that Jesus existed and was crucified, and states: " That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus ... agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact.

Tacitus, a historian of the time, notes that those, who were besieged in Jerusalem amounted to no fewer than six hundred thousand, that men and women alike and every age engaged in armed resistance, everyone who could pick up a weapon did, both sexes showed equal determination, preferring death to a life that involved expulsion from their country.

It is known that stage-props were used to represent ships, sometimes with mechanisms to simulate shipwrecks, both on stage and in the arena ( Tacitus, Annales, XIV, 6, 1 ; Dion Cassius LXI, 12, 2 ).

Tacitus describes both animal and human sacrifice.

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

Tacitus portrays both Tiberius and Nero as tyrants who caused fear in their subjects.

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.