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The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.
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.
" Tacitus states that, despite various opinions current in his day regarding the Jews ' ethnicity, most of his sources are in agreement that there was an Exodus from Egypt.
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.
Tacitus then states that the Romans responded to Boudica's attack by slaughtering as many as 70, 000 Britons in the Battle of Watling Street.
Bart D. Ehrman states that the existence of Jesus and his crucifixion by the Romans is attested to by a wide range of sources, including Josephus and Tacitus.
Andreas Köstenberger and separately Robert E. Van Voorst state that the tone of the passage towards Christians is far too negative to have been authored by a Christian scribe-a conclusion shared by John P. Meier Robert E. Van Voorst states that " of all Roman writers, Tacitus gives us the most precise information about Christ ".
John Dominic Crossan considers the passage important in establishing that Jesus existed and was crucified, and states: " That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus ... agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact.
Iamblichus describes Pythagoras visiting the mountain on account of its reputation for sacredness, stating that it was the most holy of all mountains, and access was forbidden to many, while Tacitus states that there was an oracle situated there, which Vespasian visited for a consultation ; Tacitus states that there was an altar there, but without any image upon it, and without a temple around it.
Certainly by the Roman period there is substantial place-and personal name evidence which suggests that this was so ; Tacitus also states in his Agricola that the British language differed little from that of the Gauls.
Tacitus states that while Drusus Germanicus was daring in his campaigns against the Germanic tribes, he was unable to reach this region, and that subsequently no one had yet made the attempt.
Tacitus states that Vipsania was the only one of Agrippa's children to die without violence.
According to Tacitus, also, Quadratus himself sat in judgment upon Cumanus, and he expressly states that Quadratus was superior to the procurator in authority.
The Helveconae as such ( manuscript variant Helvaeonae ) are one of the tribal states of the Lugii in Tacitus.
Tacitus states that from this moment Octavia became very unhappy, but learned to hide her affections and feelings around her husband and stepbrother.

Tacitus and Plautus
Virgil's Aeneid, in many respects, emulated Homer's Iliad ; Plautus, a comic playwright, followed in the footsteps of Aristophanes ; Tacitus ' Annals and Germania follow essentially the same historical approaches that Thucydides devised ( the Christian historian Eusebius does also, although far more influenced by his religion than either Tacitus or Thucydides had been by Greek and Roman polytheism ); Ovid and his Metamorphoses explore the same Greek myths again in new ways.
Gronovius edited and annotated Statius, Plautus, Livy, Tacitus, Aulus Gellius and Seneca's tragedies.

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.
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.

Tacitus and old
Finally, Machiavelli makes a point that bringing new benefits to a conquered people will not be enough to cancel the memory of old injuries, an idea Allan Gilbert said can be found in Tacitus and Seneca the Younger.
His editions of Plato ( 1839 – 1841, including the old scholia, in collaboration with A. W. Winckelmann ) and Tacitus ( 1846 – 1848 ) also deserve mention.
Tacitus calls the legion Galbiana, to distinguish it from the old Legio VII Claudia, but this appellation is not found on any inscriptions.
By the time of Tacitus ( d. 117 AD ), breastfeeding by elite matrons was idealized as a practice of the virtuous old days.
The pair committed the crime openly, and the Province of Asia eventually prosecuted Celer for this deed, among others ; moreover, according to Tacitus, Nero saw to it that the prosecution was delayed to such an extent that Celer died of old age ( Ann.
* An old Latin name for Finland, along with Finnia, Finningia and most often used Finlandia that originates from an old conception that people known as Fenni in Tacitus ' Germania were Finns
Galba, described by Tacitus as a feeble old man, had chosen a successor unable, due to his severity, to obtain the faith and the control of the troops.
It was not until Giovanni Boccaccio brought the manuscript of the Annals 11-16 and the Histories out of Monte Cassino to Florence, in the 1360s or 1370s, that Tacitus began to regain some of his old literary importance.
( Tacitus says that the Tungri used to be called the Germani and that other uses of the term are based on their old name.

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