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Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).
Tacitus reports that " according to one report almost eighty thousand Britons fell " compared with only four hundred Romans.
One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.
The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched.
The earliest reports of Germanic militia was the system of hundreds which was described in 98 A. D. by Tacitus as the centeni.
* Tacitus reports that the town and port of Nauportus has been plundered by a mutinous Roman legion that was sent there to build roads and bridges.
For example, Tacitus reports Germanic human sacrifice to ( what he interprets as ) Mercury, and to Isis specifically among the Suebians.
Dio's version ( 56. 30 ) reports the island visit as fact, though the brief account is likely based on Tacitus ' account ( Ann.
Tacitus heard reports that almost eighty thousand Britons were killed, compared to only four hundred Romans.
Tacitus reports that the number of cohorts was increased to twelve from nine in 47.
According to Tacitus, Macro even played an active role in bringing about Caligula's rise to power by ordering Tiberius to be killed after it was revealed that reports of his death had been premature: Caligula had begun to take power immediately upon hearing that Tiberius had died of natural causes but without confirming that Tiberius had indeed died.
Tacitus reports that the victorious Germanic tribes sacrificed captive officers to their gods on altars that could still be seen years later.
Scholars and historians since then viewed the reports on Venedi / Venethi by Tacitus, Pliny and Ptolemy as the earliest historical attestation of Slavs.
Tacitus reports that during their marriage " she had pursued her husband with ceaseless accusations ".
* Tacitus reports that golden sickles were used in Druidic rituals.
While Tacitus ' interpretations are sometimes dubious, the names and basic facts he reports are credible ; Tacitus touches on several elements of Germanic culture known from later sources.
Tacitus reports that during their marriage " she had pursued her husband with ceaseless accusations ".
Tacitus reports that Augustus on his deathbed, while discussing of possible Tiberius ’ rivals, described him as worthy of becoming emperor ( capax imperii ), but " disdainful " of supreme power.
Tacitus reports that Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo had a soldier executed for not wearing a sword while digging a trench and another for wearing only a pugio in the same activity.
There is some speculation about a Roman landing in Ireland, based on Tacitus reports about Agricola contemplating the island's conquest, but no conclusive evidence to support this theory has been found.
Tacitus reports that after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64 some in the population held Nero responsible and that to diffuse blame, he targeted and blamed the Christians ( or Chrestians ).
Zorsines was a 1st-century King ( rex Siracorum ) of the Siraces mentioned in Tacitus ' Annals of the Roman Empire ( XII. 15-19 ) around 50 AD, a people he reports as residing somewhere between the Caucasus mountains and the Don river.

Tacitus and Livilla
According to Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sejanus had poisoned Drusus, not only because he feared the wrath of the future Emperor but also because he had designs on the supreme power, and aimed at removing a potential competitor -, with Livilla as his accomplice.
Ancient sources ( Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio ) concur that with Livilla as his accomplice he poisoned her husband.
In 33 he married Julia, daughter of Livilla and consul Julius Caesar Drusus ( Tacitus, Ann.

Tacitus and was
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
Tacitus however leaves open the possibility that she was deprived of nourishment while in prison and her death was not voluntary.
From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.
The closeness of this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by Tacitus ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself.
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.
The narrative was told in great detail in Tacitus ' History, book iv, although, unfortunately, the narrative breaks off abruptly at the climax.
The mix of fancy and fact in the Cronyke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vriesland ( called the Divisiekronike ), first published in 1517, brought the spare remarks in Tacitus ' newly-rediscovered Germania to a popular public ; it was being reprinted as late as 1802.
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.
From the 19th century and much of the late 20th century, " Boadicea " was the most common version of the name, which is probably derived from a mistranscription when a manuscript of Tacitus was copied in the Middle Ages.
Her name was clearly spelled Boudicca in the best manuscripts of Tacitus, but also Βουδουικα, Βουνδουικα, and Βοδουικα in the ( later and probably secondary ) epitome of Cassius Dio.
Tacitus and Dio agree that Boudica was of royal descent.
According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped.
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 ).
Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.
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.
Dio was less biased, but seems to have used Suetonius and Tacitus as sources.
After his death, Domitian's memory was condemned to oblivion by the Roman Senate, while senatorial authors such as Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Suetonius published histories propagating the view of Domitian as a cruel and paranoid tyrant.

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