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.

Strabo, Gaius Maecenas and Cassius Dio all reiterate the traditional Roman opposition against sorcery and divination, and Tacitus uses the term religio-superstitio to class these outlawed observances.

In any case, the Roman historian Tacitus, in his book Agricola ( c. 98 AD ), uses the name Hibernia.

One approach uses the attestations of non-Christian sources such as Josephus and Tacitus.

One approach uses the attestations of non-Christian sources such as Josephus and Tacitus.

One approach uses the attestations of non-Christian sources such as Josephus and Tacitus.

( Tacitus says that the Tungri used to be called the Germani and that other uses of the term are based on their old name.

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.

" Claudius in Tacitus ".

" Thoughts on Tacitus ' Portrayal of Claudius " American Journal of Philology 92 ( 3 ) 385 – 409.

** Tacitus on the second half of Claudius ' reign, book 11

** Tacitus on Claudius ' last years, book 12

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* 275 – In Rome, ( after the assassination of Aurelian ), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.

Tacitus records that Claudius was the ruler who gave procurators governing power.

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* September 25 – Marcus Claudius Tacitus is proclaimed Emperor by the Senate, his half brother Marcus Annius Florianus becomes Praetorian Prefect.

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.

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

According to Tacitus, he amassed a force including his own Legio XIV Gemina, some vexillationes ( detachments ) of the XX Valeria Victrix, and any available auxiliaries.

Tacitus claims that Domitian ordered his recall because Agricola's successes outshone the Emperor's own modest victories in Germania.

In his biographical work Agricola, Tacitus maintains that Agricola was forced into retirement because his triumph over the Caledonians highlighted Domitian's own inadequacy as a military commander.

Nevertheless, Tacitus admits his debt to the Flavians with regard to his own public career.

It is known that there was an interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus, and there is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife Ulpia Severina ruled in her own right before Tacitus ' election.

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.

Other writers, namely Tacitus and Cassius Dio, disagree with some of Suetonius ' assertions, even though their own accounts of Vitellius are scarcely positive ones.

By inference Tacitus was criticizing his own Roman culture for getting away from its roots — which was the perennial function of such comparisons.

According to Tacitus, they found heaps of bleached bones and severed skulls nailed to trees, which they buried, "... looking on all as kinsfolk and of their own blood ...".

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.

However, the Roman historian Tacitus informs us that in the 1st century CE, Greek and native inhabitants still had institutions of their own.

He thinks Machiavelli may have been influenced by Tacitus as well his own experience, but finds no clear predecessor for this.

Tacitus in his Annals writes of them being wild, savage and impatient, disobedient even to their own kings.

According to Tacitus, upon hearing news of the fire, Nero rushed back to Rome to organize a relief effort, which he paid for from his own funds.

It is claimed by Tacitus that Agrippina exercised some erotic power over her son and that Acte advised Nero to resist this power, out of fear for her own safety and with Seneca's encouragement ; she warned Nero of the potential political repercussions with the military if incest with his mother were to become public.

According to Tacitus, he amassed a force including his own Legio XIV Gemina, parts of the XX Valeria Victrix, and any available auxiliaries, a total of 10, 000 men.

Tacitus notes that as each tribe had its own customary law, the political power of the king could vary between nations.

This view of the distinction seems to be borne out by the division of the work of Cornelius Tacitus into the Historeia, relating the events of his own time, and the Annales, containing the history of earlier periods.

He was a slave, proud of his servitude, a Paul Pry, convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues, an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the basest violation of confidence, a man without delicacy, without shame, without sense enough to know when he was hurting the feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision ; and because he was all this, he has, in an important department of literature, immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus, Clarendon, Alfieri, and his own idol Johnson.

Some 20th-century scholars, including the American etymologist Kemp Malone ( 1889 – 1971 ), have argued that the reason for the differences between Pliny, Tacitus and Ptolemy when it comes to names and tribes is that their informants came from different regions, mainly familiar with the parts of Scandinavia closest to their own location: " The name Scadinavia ( with its variant forms ) reached the classical world through western sources, and [...] Tacitus, whose information about the North came from the east, knows nothing of the name, in contradistinction to Pliny, who got his information from the west.