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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.