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Tacitus knew it as Insula Batavorum (" Island of the Batavians ," the Germanic tribe from which the modern name is derived ) and indeed it could be considered a large river island, but nowadays it hardly ever is viewed as such ( with the exception of the last months of World War II ( October 1944-June 1945 ) when it became known as " Men's Island " or " Manneneiland " due to the evacuation of all civilian population during Operation Market Garden, leaving only soldiers behind ).
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He feared the people of Rome knew of the conspiracy against Germanicus, but Tiberius ' jealousy and fear of his nephew's popularity and increasing power was the true motive as understood by Tacitus.
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.
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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.
* Tacitean studies-differing interpretations whether Tacitus defended republicanism (" red Tacitists ") or the contrary (" black Tacitists ").
Livia had always been a principal beneficiary of the climate of adulation that Augustus had done so much to create, and which Tiberius despised (" a strong contempt for honours ", Tacitus, Annals 4. 37 ).
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.
" Principes instar deorum esse " (" Emperors are as gods ") are the words of Tacitus.
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 ).
The version of Tacitus (" Annals ," xii. 45, 54 ) can not be reconciled with that of Josephus, since, according to the former, Felix and Cumanus were procurators at the same time, the one in Samaria and the other in Galilee.
Tacitus recounts how one centurio earned the nickname Cedo Alteram (" give me another!
Tacitus and Batavians
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.
" 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.
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She replied, " Let him kill me, provided he becomes emperor ," according to Tacitus.
Tacitus in Germania only mentions the Quadi in the same breath as the Marcomanni, alike in warlike spirit, alike governed by " kings " of their own noble stock, " descended from the noble line of Maroboduus and Tudrus ," the " Tudric " line apparently kings among the Quadi.
Tacitus mentions in passing that Porsenna, " when the city was surrendered ," did not violate the seat of Jupiter " ( the Capitol ).
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.
Quadratus died during his tenure of office ( Tacitus, " Annals ," xiv. 26 ).
Tacitus and Germanic
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.
Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 40, in which the " Anglii " are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes.
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 ( De origine et situ Germanorum XXIX ) described the Batavi as the bravest of the tribes of the area, hardened in the Germanic wars, with cohorts under their own commanders transferred to Britannia.
If so, they may have originally comprised residual Celtic elements in central eastern Europe such as the Cotini, who formed a Celtic enclave in the Germanic-speaking zone and are described by Tacitus as iron-ore miners working as tributaries of the powerful Quadi Germanic people.
* Alcis ( gods ), Germanic horse brother deities venerated by the Naharvali, a Germanic people described by Tacitus in 1 CE
The earliest reports of Germanic militia was the system of hundreds which was described in 98 A. D. by Tacitus as the centeni.
Njörðr is often identified with the goddess Nerthus, whose reverence by various Germanic tribes is described by Roman historian Tacitus in his 1st CE century work Germania.
* Paleopaganism: A retronym coined to contrast with " Neopaganism ", " original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths ", such as the pre-Hellenistic Greek and pre-imperial Roman religion, pre-Migration period Germanic paganism as described by Tacitus, or Celtic polytheism as described by Julius Caesar.
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.
Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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.
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.
Romans associated Mercury with the Germanic god Wotan, by interpretatio Romana ; 1st-century Roman writer Tacitus identifies him as the chief god of the Germanic peoples.
* " Isis " of the Suebi, a goddess identified by Tacitus as venerated by the Suebi, a Germanic people
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.
According to Tacitus in his book Germania ( chapter 30 ), they were disciplined warriors famed for their infantry, who ( unusually for Germanic tribes ) used trenching tools and carried provisions when at war.
The Chasuarii were a Germanic tribe mentioned by Tacitus in the Germania.
For example, Tacitus reports Germanic human sacrifice to ( what he interprets as ) Mercury, and to Isis specifically among the Suebians.
According to John Lindow, Andy Orchard, and Rudolf Simek the einherjar are commonly connected to the Harii, a Germanic tribe attested by Tacitus in his 1st century CE work Germania.
During the Roman era, this region was inhabited by a Germanic tribe, called Cananefates by the Roman writer Tacitus.
Tacitus and tribe
" Tacitus counted the Lombards as a Suebian tribe, and subjects of Marobod the King of the Marcomanni.
However, other copies call the same tribe Axones, and it is considered likely that it is a misspelling of the tribe that Tacitus in his Germania called Aviones.
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.
Tacitus states that among the Catti, a Germanic tribe ( perhaps the Chatten ), a young man was not allowed to shave or cut his hair until he had slain an enemy.
The Roman Tacitus wrote of the Silures: non atrocitate, non clementia mutabatur – the tribe " was changed neither by cruelty nor by clemency ".
The Lugii, Lugi, Lygii, Ligii, Lugiones, Lygians, Ligians, Lugians, or Lougoi were an ancient Germanic tribe attested in the book Germania by the Roman historian Tacitus.
In Tacitus the Buri are a separate tribe, so it's possible that they entered the Lugian federation a bit later.
The original inhabitants of the region were the Balt tribe of the Aesti, mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania ( AD 98 ).
Although Tacitus listed the Venethi as a tribe in Germania, in his Getica, Jordanes equated the Venethi with the Sclavenes and Antes.
This act of war provoked an equally strong response from Agricola, who, according to Tacitus, exterminated the whole tribe.
The temple was also the seat of an oracle in which the chief priest predicted the future of his tribe by observing the behaviour of a white horse identified with Svantevit and casting dice ( horse oracles have a long history in this region, being already attested in the writings of Tacitus ).
Caesar relates that the Suebi maintained a citizen army of 100, 000 men picked yearly, and Tacitus that the Suebi were not one tribe.
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 suggests that it was in this very region that the term Germani started to be used, even though he mentions a tribe Caesar did not mention, the Tungri. The name Germany, on the other hand, they say, is modern and newly introduced, from the fact that the tribes which first crossed the Rhine and drove out the Gauls, and are now called Tungrians, were then called Germans.
Tacitus located the East Germanic tribe of the Rugians in the area around Szczecin, as did modern historians.
The largest Germanic tribe, Suebians, also make sacrifices, allegedly of captured Roman soldiers, to a goddess who is identified by Tacitus with " Nerthus "
Tacitus says that the Brigantes were a large tribe, and their territory was more extensive than is commonly shown on maps of Roman Britain, which approximately restricts them to northwestern England south of Hadrian's Wall.
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