Tacitus

Also known as Claudius Tacitus, Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Gothicus Maximus, Marcus Claudius Tacitus Gothicus Maximus, Marcus Claudius Tacitus Pius Felix Augustus

Roman emperor from 275 to 276

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Tacitus was a Roman emperor who ruled for only about a year, from 275 to 276 CE. While his reign was brief, he is remembered as part of a crucial period when Rome was working to stabilize itself after decades of civil war and military crisis.

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Works: 55

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The Histories Vol. I of Four (Loeb Classical Library, Books I-III)
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
Dialogue on Orators
Complete Tacitus Collection

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117) Roman Historian, author of the Histories and Annals. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tacitus">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

Annals
· 1931 · cited 23x
Histories
· 1925 · cited 17x
Agricola
· 1914 · cited 11x
Dialogus
· 1914 · cited 11x
Annales
· 1906 · cited 8x

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Quotes

“Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.”
“Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”
“Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.”
“Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.”
“Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis.”
“The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us, is seldom entered by a sail from our world.”

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Commons category: Marcus Claudius Tacitus
date of death: 0276-06-01
date of birth: 0200-01-01

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Marcus Claudius Tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ TAS-it-əs; died June 276) was Roman emperor from 275 to 276. During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.

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