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.

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 ).

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.

Tacitus, in the late 1st century mentions ( Germania I. 42 ) the Marcommani as being under kings appointed by Rome.

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 mentions the Suiones, who will one day be called the Swedes.

The Roman chronicler Tacitus even mentions that the rebellious Batavi pierced dikes to flood their land and to protect their retreat ( AD 70 ).

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 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 ).

The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that Agricola, while governor of Roman Britain ( AD 78-84 ), entertained an exiled Irish prince ( may be Túathal ), thinking to use him as a pretext for a possible conquest of Ireland.

The Roman historian Tacitus mentions Colchester ( Camulodunum ) in The Annals of Imperial Rome.

The Caledonian army, which Tacitus claims was led by Calgacus ( Tacitus only mentions him as giving a speech, probably fictitious ), was said to be over 30, 000 strong.

According to Tacitus ( Germania 43: 3 ) the Lugii were divided into many tribes (' civitates '), of which he mentions the five most powerful: Harii, Helveconae, Manimi, Helisii and Naharvali.

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

In the Roman Empire, the historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in A. D. 109.

Tacitus also mentions it as the province of Germania Superior in his Annales ( 3. 41, 4. 73, 13. 53 ).

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.

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.

The inscription is notable because it mentions Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor of Britain from AD 77-84, who is otherwise known from a biography written by his son in law Tacitus.

The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that Agricola, while governor of Roman Britain ( AD 78-84 ), entertained an exiled Irish prince, thinking to use him as a pretext for a possible conquest of Ireland.

Tacitus in his description of Magna Germania mentions Suevi: Marsigni, Osi, Gothini, Burii in what later became Silesia and Burgundiones and Lygii at the Vistula.

Togodumnus was killed ( although John Hind argues that Dio was mistaken in reporting Togodumnus ' death, that he was defeated but survived, and was later appointed by the Romans as a friendly king over a nummber of territories, becoming the loyal king referred to by Tacitus as Cogidubnus or Togidubnus ) and the Catuvellauni's territories were conquered.

In 21 Arminius " succumbed to treachery from his relations " ( Tacitus ) and a client king was appointed on the Germans by Rome.

As early as the 1st century, Tacitus wrote that the Suiones had a king, but the order of succession to the later historic kings of Sweden, before King Eric the Victorious ( died 995 ), is only known by what is accounted for in the historically controversial Norse sagas ( see Mythical kings of Sweden and Semi-legendary kings of Sweden ).

Some archaeologists believe that Esuprastus was the true name of the king Tacitus calls Prasutagus, while others think he was a different person.

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.

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.

Tacitus avoids using terms such as king to describe Calgacus and it is uncertain as to whether the Caledonians had single leaders or whether they were more disparate and that Calgacus was an elected war leader only.

The English constitution, he asserted, “ is originally and essentially free .” Roman sources, such as the reliable Tacitus, made it clear that “ the ancient Britons … were extremely jealous of their liberties .” England ’ s monarchs originally held their throne “ solely by grant of parliament ,” so the ancient English kings ruled “ by the voluntary consent of the people .” After forty pages of such historical discourse, Mayhew reached his major point: the essential rightness of the execution of an English king when he too greatly infringed upon British liberties.

Tacitus notes that as each tribe had its own customary law, the political power of the king could vary between nations.

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.

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.

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.

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

The ancient historians allege that Messalina was a nymphomaniac who was regularly unfaithful to Claudius — Tacitus states she went so far as to compete with a prostitute to see who could have the most sexual partners in a night — and manipulated his policies in order to amass wealth.

" 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.

Tacitus suggests that this was the original way the word " Germani " was used – as the name of a single tribal nation, ancestral to the Tungri ( who lived in the same area as the earlier Germani reported by Caesar ), and not a whole race ( gentis ).

Tacitus in his Agricola wrote that the various groupings of Britons shared physical characteristics with their continental neighbours: the Britons of England were more typically blonde-haired, like the Gauls, in contrast to the Britons of Wales, who were generally dark and curly of hair, like the Spanish, or those of Scotland, stereotypically redheaded.

The Huns were a group of nomadic people who first appeared from east of the Volga River, and were first mentioned as Hunnoi by Tacitus.

We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitus with Josephus, who warped his narrative to do honour to Titus.

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 never accused Nero of playing the lyre while Rome burned-that statement came from Cassius Dio, who died in the 3rd century.

Tacitus records that Claudius was the ruler who gave procurators governing power.

Josephus ( as well as Tacitus ), reporting on the conclusion of the Jewish war, claimed that it was Vespasian who was predicted in Jewish scripture to be the messiah.

Tacitus writes that after Julius Caesar's assassination, a temple in honour of Isis had been decreed ; Augustus suspended this, and tried to turn Romans back to the Roman deities who were closely associated with the state.

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.

One is Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius, the conqueror of Britain, who as Tacitus relates, was accused of following a " foreign superstition ", generally considered to be Christianity.

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.

Another contemporary of Titus was Publius Cornelius Tacitus, who started his public career in 80 or 81 and credits the Flavian dynasty with his elevation.