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

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.

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

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

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.

Tacitus, the main source concerning the events of the conspiracy, admits to lacking knowledge about how Epicharis originally gained knowledge of the conspiracy.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

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.

He published many legal works, and some annotations on Tacitus and accumulated a sylloge of Roman inscriptions from Milan and its territories, as part of his preparation for his history of Milan, written in 1504-05.

They retained the honour of the ancient association with the Romans, not required to pay tribute or taxes and used by the Romans only for war: " They furnished to the Empire nothing but men and arms ", Tacitus remarked.

Well regarded for their skills in horsemanship and swimming — for men and horses could cross the Rhine without losing formation, according to Tacitus.

Such a treaty was seemingly remarkably effective, as the Bastarnae disappear, save for a single passing mention in Tacitus, from the Roman chronicles until c. AD 175, some 160 years after Augustus ' inscription was carved.

Tacitus does not mention this, but does single out the procurator, Catus Decianus, for criticism for his " avarice ".

Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.

Tacitus uses Claudius ' own arguments for the orthographical innovations mentioned above, and may have used him for some of the more antiquarian passages in his annals.

Tacitus wrote a narrative for his fellow senators and fitted each of the Emperors into a simple mold of his choosing.

The only historical source for this comes from the writings of Agricola's son-in-law, Tacitus.

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 the early Iron Age a word similar to Finns appeared for the first time in a written document when Tacitus mentions Fenni in his Germania.

The ancient historical writers, chiefly Suetonius and Tacitus, write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, and portray the Emperors in generally negative terms, whether from preference for the Roman Republic or love of a good scandalous story.

He circulated copies of the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ' work, which was barely read at the time, and so we perhaps have him to thank for the partial survival of Tacitus ' work ; however, modern historiography rejects his claimed descent from the historian as forgery.

For example, the earliest surviving copies of parts of the Roman historian Tacitus ' main work, the Annals of Imperial Rome ( written in 116 AD ), come from a single manuscript written in 850 AD, although for other parts of his work, the earliest copies come from the 11th century, while other parts of his work have been lost.

These authors tended to cite Tacitus as their source for realist political advice, rather than Machiavelli, and this pretense came to be known as " Tacitism ".

This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero's reign.

However, the following numbers, very different for the early years, come from the Tacitus Historical Atlas

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 ).

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.

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:

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the part of Tacitus ' Histories dealing with the reign of the Flavian dynasty is almost entirely lost.

Tacitus wrote that many officers were sacrificed by the Germanic forces as part of their indigenous religious ceremonies, cooked in pots and their bones used for rituals.

For the first century AD, we are quite well informed about the Chatti, mostly thanks to Tacitus, who provides important information about the Chatti's part in the Germanic wars and certain elements of their culture.

The area around Potsdam shows occupancy since the Bronze Age and was part of Magna Germania as described by Tacitus.

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.

Tacitus in Annales Chapter 13. 54, 56, relates the sad fate of the men of the Ems, at which they arrived because they refused to accept a greater identity than that of a tribesman ; i. e., to become part of a nation.

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 mentions a king who ruled several territories as a loyal ally of Rome into the later part of the first century, called Cogidumnus in most manuscripts but Togidumnus in one.

The Aesti ( Easterners ) recorded by Tacitus were recorded later by Jordanes as part of the Gothic Empire.

However the sources do not appear to support this: according to Dio, Togodumnus was killed in 43 in the early stages of the Roman conquest of Britain, while Tacitus says that Cogidubnus remained loyal to Rome as a client king into the later part of the 1st century.

Lindauer ( 1975 ) notes that, although this claim is to be judged as one made out of simple ignorance of the facts on the part of Tacitus, he was not entirely wrong, as he made the judgement based on a comparison with the relatively turbulent Mediterranean region of his day.

Images of the various gods played a part in worship, although Tacitus noted that whilst amongst the early Germans " effigies " were used and even taken into battle, they were not " human appearance ".

The historian, Dr Graham Webster has suggested it took place near Manduessedum (" the place of the war chariots "), modern day Mancetter and military finds of armour and military coinage relating to the 14th Legion, whom Tacitus records formed part of Suetonius ' army, have been found in the region, giving weight to Webster's hypothesis.

Tacitus blames his " rapacity " in part for provoking the rebellion of Boudica.

Fauchet took part in a translation of the Annals of Tacitus ( 1582 ).

Cogidubnus was notably loyal to the Romans ( see, e. g., Tacitus ), and after his death, probably in 73 AD, the kingdom became part of the Roman province of Britannia.

Although Tacitus refers to part of his work as " my annals ", the title of the work Annals used today was not assigned by Tacitus himself, but derives from its year-by-year structure.

Although Tacitus refers to part of his work as " my annals ", the title of the work Annals used today was not assigned by Tacitus himself, but derives from its year-by-year structure.

" This is a tribe ," says Tacitus ( Histories Book iv ) " which inhabits part of the island, and closely resembles the Batavians in their origin, their language, and their courageous character, but is inferior in numbers.

After Jordanes, Tacitus disappeared from literature for the better part of two centuries, and only four certain references appear until 1360.