Tacitus stated that they traded with Rhaetia, which in Ptolemy is located across the Danube from Germania Superior.

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 ".

The Roman historian Tacitus is often stated to have been born in Terni, but there is no evidence for the claim, which is circumstantially based on the probable birth there of the emperor of the same name, and on the attested fact that that emperor took care to have his namesake's works widely copied, in the apparent belief that they were related.

William L. Portier has stated that the consistency in the references by Tacitus, Josephus and the letters to Emperor Trajan by Pliny the Younger reaffirm the validity of all three accounts.

However, Paul R. Eddy has stated that given his position as a senator Tacitus was also likely to have had access to official Roman documents of the time and did not need other sources.

Tacitus described Faustus's character as " timid and despicable " and also stated that Faustus was incapable to attempt to plot against Nero.

This had been noted by Tacitus, for example when he mentioned the names of two kings of the 1st century Frisians and added that they were kings " as far as the Germans are under kings ".

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

Tacitus describes the Germans hollowing out underground caves, covering them with manure and using them as storehouses and refuges from winter frosts.

The English term Germans is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term Germani used by Julius Caesar and later Tacitus.

The English term " Germans " is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term " Germani " used by Julius Caesar and later, Tacitus.

Slavists such as Pavel Josef Šafařík have criticized Tacitus for erroneously identifying the Venethi as Germanic, due to the similar appearance of Slavs and Germans

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 Lugii Buri are mentioned living within the eastern range of the Germans.

Tacitus says that the Germans made a distinction between kings, who were chosen by birth, and military leaders, who were chosen by ability, and that kings did not have absolute power.

Tacitus notes that to flee from battle, abandoning one's shield, was shameful among the Germans, and those who did so often hung themselves ; and that traitors and deserters were hung, and cowards drowned.

In a comment in his Germania Tacitus remarks that Germani was the original tribal name of the Tungri with whom the Gauls were in contact ; among the Gauls the term Germani came to be widely applied. 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 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.

* Although the term Germanic has a linguistic definition today, Roman authors such as Caesar and Tacitus did not clearly divide the Celts from what they called the Germans based on languages.

We do know, however, that in Tacitus ' day the Germans discerned a divinity of prophecy in women, and virgin prophetesses, such as Veleda, were honored as true and living goddesses.

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 ".

Tacitus had said of them as tribesmen :" The Germans have no taste for peace ; renown is easier won among perils, and you cannot maintain a large body of companions except by violence and war.

Grotius, as well as Jerome, confounds the two together, and shows that it prevailed much among the Magi, Chaldean, and Scythians, from which it passed to the Slavonians, and then to the Germans, whom Tacitus observes to make use of it.

The primitive bonds of kindred and clan was particularly strong among the Saxons, and in spite of many divisions the Saxons were an unusually homogeneous nation living as late as the eighth century as the early Germans described by Tacitus in Germania had lived.

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.

In 21, during the reign of Tiberius, they revolted under Julius Sacrovir, and seized Augustodunum, but were soon put down by Gaius Silius ( Tacitus Ann.

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, Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped.

Some of these men were executed as early as 83 or 85 however, lending little credit to Tacitus ' notion of a " reign of terror " late in Domitian's reign.

Tacitus ' major historical works, including The Histories and Agricola's biography, were all written and published under Domitian's successors Nerva ( 96 – 98 ) and Trajan ( 98 – 117 ).

Hostile views of Domitian were propagated until well into the early 20th century, before archeological and numismatic advances brought renewed attention to his reign, and necessitated a revision of the literary tradition established by Tacitus and Pliny.

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.

According to Tacitus, the Huns of Kushan were already in the Turan lowlands of Atyrau Province by 91AD.

His half-brother, the Praetorian Prefect Florianus, and Tacitus himself won a victory against these tribes, among which were the Heruli, which gained the emperor the title Gothicus Maximus.

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 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.

According to German philologist Maximilian Ihm ( 1863 – 1909 ), Tacitus writes that the Chatti were hostile and subjugated the Cherusci but were " pacified " between 4 and 6 CE.

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.

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.

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.