The historian Tacitus suggests that Claudius's ongoing term as Censor may have prevented him from noticing the affair before it reached such a critical point.

Tacitus suggests that he was always disliked and shunned by Livia, as he stood in the way of her son Tiberius succeeding to the throne after Augustus.

'" Cramer also suggests that it was not unlikely for one of Quintilian's students to have been Tacitus, who later said:

Perhaps, as Tacitus suggests, he wished to panic him into some sort of submission, but Thrasea's reaction was merely to inquire what the charges against him were and to ask for time to prepare a defence-the implication being probably that there was no legal basis for proceedings against him.

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.

But the archaeological evidence suggests that the proto-Sami and Proto-Finns had a lifestyle more akin to Tacitus ' description.

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.

Tacitus refers to it as the Arbor Ruminalis, an identification that suggests it had replaced the original, either cultivated as an offshoot, or symbolically.

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.

* 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.

No original copies of the Annals exist and the surviving copies of Tacitus ' works derive from two principal manuscripts, known as the Medicean manuscripts, written in Latin, which are held in the Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy.

Adolf von Harnack argued that Chrestians was the original wording, and that Tacitus deliberately used Christus immediately after it to show his own superior knowledge compared to the population at large.

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.

Tacitus says that Tungri was a new name for the original tribes who had previously been called the Germani.

Some generations later, Tacitus claimed that this is precisely what happened, saying that the Tungri of his time, who lived in the area which had been home to the germani cisrhenani, had changed their name, but had once been the original Germani.

The original inhabitants of the region were the Balt tribe of the Aesti, mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania ( AD 98 ).

The later historian Tacitus, says that the tribal group in this area were indeed the original Germani, and that in his time they had taken up the new name, Tungri.

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.

Another theory is that Tacitus ' Fenni and Ptolemy's northern Phinnoi were the same people and constituted the original Sami people of northern Fennoscandia, making Tacitus ' description the first historical record of them.

However, as discussed further below, the report of Tacitus that the Tungri were the original " Germani " that came earliest over the Rhine, and the way this matches the description by Caesar of the Eburones and their neighbours, leads to the possibility that they survived under a new name.

They cite a " more fanciful school " which assumes an original meaning of " elk " based on a theonym Alcis recorded by Tacitus ( suggesting that the name would have been theophoric in origin, referring to an " elk-god ").

Tacitus says that couriers from Judea and Syria brought news to Vitellius that the legions of the East had sworn allegiance to him, and this also shows that the relay system was displaced by a system in which the original messenger made the entire journey.

The original use of the name, by Tacitus, Ptolemy, Lucan and Pliny the Elder, referred to the area ( or parts of the area ) also known as Pictavia or Pictland north of Hadrian's Wall in today's Scotland.

Finding ways to equate Pliny's Hilleviones, Tacitus ' Suiones and Jordanes ' Suehans was a goal pursued with special vigor in the 17th century by the Rudbeckians of the Swedish Hyperborean School, who hoped to show that Sweden was not only the home of the original Goths, but also the " womb of mankind ".

Tacitus believed that these tribal precursors of the Saxons were the original and ancient inhabitants of this land.