Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

* Tacitus writes Histories, which covers the period from 69 to 96.

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.

Bell, Jr. writes mysteries set in the Roman Empire with Pliny the younger as sleuth and Tacitus as sidekick.

Tacitus writes: “ He was then carried into a bath, with the steam of which he was suffocated, and he was burnt without any of the usual funeral rites.

Tacitus writes:

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

At the time of the uprising of Boudica, Tacitus writes that " Londinium ... though undistinguished by the name of a colonia, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.

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

In chapter 40 of his Germania, Roman historian Tacitus writes that beside the Langobardi dwell seven Germanic tribes ; the Reudigni, Aviones, Anglii, Varini, Eudoses, Suarines, and Nuitones.

Juha Pentikäinen writes that Tacitus may well have been describing the Sami or the proto Finns when referring to the Fenni, noting some archeologists have identified these people as indigenous to Scandinavia.

Tacitus writes in De vita Iulii Agricolae that Agricola was fighting in the area in around 80 CE.

Regarding the Harii, Tacitus writes in Germania:

Tacitus writes from the point of view of an aristocrat.

The Roman historian Tacitus writes that the Parthian court official Abdagaeses, who exerted political control over Tiridates, spared Tiridates from danger by preventing him from visiting the Parthian tribes.

On the Germanic tribes, the Roman historian Tacitus writes the following: " They don't consider it mighty enough for the Heavens to depict Gods on walls or to display them in some human shape .".

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.

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.

The main ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote after the last of the Flavians had gone.

Both Tacitus and Suetonius speak of escalating persecutions toward the end of Domitian's reign, identifying a point of sharp increase around 93, or sometime after the failed revolt of Saturninus in 89.

Furthermore, contemporary historians such as Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius all authored the information on his reign after it had ended, and his memory had been condemned to oblivion.

From the combined testimony of Strabo ( AD 20 ) and Tacitus ( AD 117 ), the Lombards dwelt near the mouth of the Elbe shortly after the beginning of the Christian era, next to the Chauci.

In Tacitus ' opinion, the trend away from a true republic was irreversible only when Tiberius established power, shortly after Augustus ' death in AD 14 ( much later than most historians place the start of the Imperial form of government in Rome ).

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

Another early written reference to the islands may have been when Tacitus reported in AD 98 after describing the discovery and conquest of Orkney that the Roman fleet had seen " Thule, too ".

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.

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

Caradog only began to be identified with Caratacus after the rediscovery of the works of Tacitus, and new material appeared based on this identification.

Florianus, the half-brother of Tacitus, was also proclaimed successor by his soldiers, but was killed after an indecisive campaign.

Tacitus ( writing in Book XV, Chapters 60 through 64 of his Annals of Imperial Rome, a generation later, after the Julio-Claudian emperors ) gives an account of the suicide, perhaps, in light of Tacitus's Republican sympathies, somewhat romanticized.

In his Histories, Tacitus relates the account of divination rites at the famous Temple of Venus at Paphos ; according to traditional tales, this temple was founded by King Aerias, but others say Cinyras consecrated the temple, which was built right on the spot where the goddess had first stepped on the land after her birth from the sea.

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.

Tacitus, on the other hand, attributes much of the decline of Tiberius ' rule after 23 to the corrupting influence of Sejanus, although he is generally also harsh on Tiberius himself.

Tacitus says the name arose from the Etruscans who had come to aid the Romans against Titus Tatius, a Sabine ruler who invaded Rome in around 750 BC after Romans abducted Sabine women, and later settled down in the neighborhood of the Roman forum.

According to Tacitus, Macro even played an active role in bringing about Caligula's rise to power by ordering Tiberius to be killed after it was revealed that reports of his death had been premature: Caligula had begun to take power immediately upon hearing that Tiberius had died of natural causes but without confirming that Tiberius had indeed died.

According to Tacitus, some in the population held Nero responsible, as soon after he built himself a huge house in the center of Rome called the " Golden House ".

Tacitus ' statement Perdomita Britannia et statim missa ( Britain was completely conquered and immediately let go ), denotes his bitter disapproval of Domitian's failure to unify the whole island under Roman rule after Agricola's successful campaign.

In one quote the Ampsivarii appear again some few hundred years after their loss in Tacitus.

Although a few scholars question the passage given that Tacitus was born 25 years after Jesus's death, the majority of scholars consider it genuine.

Tacitus, on the other hand, places the death after the Quinquennial Neronia and claims Nero's kick was a " casual outburst.

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.

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.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.

Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.

Governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola, father-in-law to the historian Tacitus, conquered the Ordovices in 78.

* 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.

etymology of the name of Julius Caesar ) although he was balding, and Tacitus ' cognomen meant silent, while he was a well-known orator.

* Julia Agricola, daughter of general Gnaeus Julius Agricola and wife to historian Tacitus

It is this western group which was described by the Roman historian Tacitus ( 56 – 117 AD ) and Julius Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ).

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.

* Agricola ( book ), a biography of Julius Agricola by Tacitus

Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor and Tacitus ' father-in-law, had sent his fleet ahead to panic the Caledonians, and, with light infantry reinforced with British auxiliaries, reached the site, which he found occupied by the enemy.

* Julius Naso, a friend of both the younger Plinius and Tacitus, who were interested in his success as a candidate for public office.

he came to this conclusion using the justification that Roman writers like Julius Caesar and Tacitus had not referred to stone circles when discussing the Iron Age Britons, whereas Late Mediaeval historians like Geoffrey of Monmouth and Henry of Huntingdon had described these megaliths in their works, and that such monuments must have therefore been constructed between the two sets of accounts.

The name Grampians is believed to have first been applied to the mountain range in 1520 by the Scottish historian Hector Boece, an adaptation of the name Mons Graupius, recorded by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus as the site of the defeat of the native Caledonians by Gnaeus Julius Agricola circa 83 AD.

In AD 83 or 84, led by Calgacus, the Caledonians ' defeat at the hands of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at Mons Graupius is recorded by Tacitus.

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.

According to Tacitus, Calgacus ( sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus ) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84.

The inscription is notable because it mentions Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor of Britain from AD 77-84, who is otherwise known from a biography written by his son in law Tacitus.

* Domitia Decidiana, wife of Roman General Gnaeus Julius Agricola and mother-in-law to historian Tacitus

In 33 he married Julia, daughter of Livilla and consul Julius Caesar Drusus ( Tacitus, Ann.

On the life and character of Julius Agricola ) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general.