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n. 1 a Roman cognomen, notably borne by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus (c.56-117), a historian of ancient Rome and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Claudius%20Tacitus (c.200-275), a Roman emperor. 2 a lunar impact crater
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Tacitus (; ; c. 200 – 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.
Tacitus is a lunar impact crater located to the northwest of the crater Catharina, at the northern extension of the Rupes Altai ridge line. Directly west is the crater Almanon, and to the northeast is Cyrillus. To the southeast of Tacitus is a long chain of craters named the Catena Abulfeda. This chain runs to the northwest from the eastern edge of the Rupes Altai, continuing for over 200 kilometers.
The crater terminates a ridge which forms part of the Rupes Altai. The outer wall has a small rampart, and the interior surfaces are terraced. The rim outline has a slight polygonal outline. There is a low ridge on the crater floor running from the north wall.
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (; ; c. AD 56 – after 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–Roman War in AD 70. There are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts, including a gap in the Annals that is four books long.
Tacitus' other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law, Agricola, the Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain, mainly focusing on his campaign in Britannia ( De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae).
Tacitus is considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is known for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.
Tacitus was a Roman historian. Tacitus may also mean:
- Marcus Claudius Tacitus, emperor of Rome 275–276
- 3097 Tacitus, an asteroid named after the Roman historian
- Tacitus (crater), a lunar impact crater, also named after the historian
- Aeneas Tacticus (fl. 4th century BC), Greek military writer
- Tacitus bellus, one of several varieties of succulent plants
- Tiberium#Tacitus, a fictional extraterrestrial data matrix from the Command & Conquer series of computer games
Usage examples of "tacitus".
Even after centuries have passed, and though he should be an Aeschylus or a Tacitus, any one raising the cover would smell the stench.
Why, First Sergeant Tacitus, over in Kilo Company, he caught one of his corporals, brought back a clutch of raptor eggs from Wanderjahr and was hatching them in a homemade incubator behind his wall locker!
Tacitus cites his sources as stating that Nero violated Britannicus some time before he poisoned him, but since this is not confirmed elsewhere, the lurid addendum is relegated to the Notes.
Take the example of Tacitus, who begins his history of Rome by these words: 'Urbem Roman a principio reges habuere'.
Compare the similar saying of Tacitus regarding the chastity of the Germans: Plusque ibi bond mores valent, quam alibi bonae leges (Germ.
We may learn from Polybius, Strabo, and Tacitus, that the profits of the fishery constituted the principal revenue of Byzantium.
To illustrate and often to correct him, I have meditated Tacitus, examined Suetonius, and consulted the following moderns: the Abbe de la Bleterie, in the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.
In their primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and delineated by the masterly pencil, of Tacitus, ^* the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts.
Whatever flattering expectations he had conceived of reconciling the public disorders, Tacitus soon was convinced that the licentiousness of the army disdained the feeble restraint of laws, and his last hour was hastened by anguish and disappointment.
After a brief consultation with his assessor and with Tacitus, the Governor directed that Bion and Rhoda his wife should be called.
Lardner, in his first and second volumes of Jewish and Christian testimonies, collects and illustrates those of Pliny the younger, of Tacitus, of Galen, of Marcus Antoninus, and perhaps of Epictetus, (for it is doubtful whether that philosopher means to speak of the Christians.
Military merit, as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus, was, in the strictest sense of the word, imperatoria virtus.
As soon as the tumult of acclamations subsided, Tacitus attempted to decline the dangerous honor, and to express his wonder, that they should elect his age and infirmities to succeed the martial vigor of Aurelian.
It was their historical understanding (based on the writings of Samuel von Pufendorf and Hugo Grotius) that the rights they claimed by way of the English could be traced back to the Anglo-Saxons (as depicted by Tacitus in his Germa-nid), who had curbed royal power by introducing a measure of representative government.
Tacitus, the Roman historian, wrote that the Semites fell into venerating the ass because had it not been for wild asses, they never would have survived in the desert.