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 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 Plautus was old fashioned in tastes, his bearing austere and he lived a secluded life.

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.

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.

Since the alteration became known it has given rise to debates among scholars as to whether Tacitus deliberately used the term Chrestians, or if a scribe made an error during the Middle Ages.

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.

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.

For example, Tacitus reports Germanic human sacrifice to ( what he interprets as ) Mercury, and to Isis specifically among the Suebians.

Syme's next great work was his definitive two-volume biography of Tacitus ( 1958 ), his favorite among the ancient historians.

His father, Professor Jean-Louis Burnouf ( 1775-1844 ), was a classical scholar of high reputation, and the author, among other works, of an excellent translation of Tacitus ( 6 vols., 1827-1833 ).

Tacitus, writing in AD 98 did not refer to the Vistula as a boundary, but simply locates the Veneti among the peoples on the eastern fringe of Germania.

Tacitus also writes about female prophets among the Germanic peoples in his book Histories 4, 61-notably a certain Veleda:

The seven tribes are surrounded by rivers and forests and, according to Tacitus, there is nothing particularly worthy of comment about them as individuals, yet they are particularly distinguished in that they all worship the goddess Nerthus, and provides an account of veneration of the goddess among the groups.

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.

One should not, however, think that Tacitus ' portrayal of Germanic customs is entirely favorable ; he notes a tendency in the Germanic people for what he saw as their habitual drunkenness, laziness, and barbarism, among other traits.

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.

While other Roman writers of the time, such as Cicero, Suetonius, Lucan, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, described human sacrifice among the Celts, only Caesar and the geographer Strabo mention the wicker man as one of many ways the Druids of Gaul performed sacrifices.

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.

The eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon, interpreting Tacitus, Germania § 40, detected a parallel among the pagan German tribes who worshipped a goddess of the earth ( identified by modern scholars with Nerthus ) who in Gibbon's interpretation resided at the island of Rügen, who annually travelled to visit the tribes.

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.

In his account of the campaigns of Gnaeus Julius Agricola ( governor 78 – 84 ), Tacitus says that after a combination of force and diplomacy quieted discontent among the Britons who had been conquered previously, Agricola built forts in their territories in 79.

The only historical source that features him is Tacitus ' Agricola, which describes him as " the most distinguished for birth and valour among the chieftains ".

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.

At the beginning of the 15th century, following the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, their return, and the foreign invasions of Italy, Tacitus returned to prominence among the theorists of classical republicanism.

The Chauci, according to Tacitus, also lived also in the general area later known as Old Saxony and were highly respected among Germanic tribes.

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.

The extremity of its desolation was proverbial among Roman authors, such as Tacitus and Juvenal.

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.

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.