By Tacitus
With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr.
With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr.
Tacitus
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Title: The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
The Oxford Translation Revised, with Notes
Author: Tacitus
Commentator: Edward Brooks
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Language: English
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THE GERMANY
AND THE AGRICOLA
OF TACITUS.
THE OXFORD TRANSLATION REVISED, WITH NOTES.
By Tacitus
With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY. [1]
THE LIFE OF CNAEUS JULIUS AGRICOLA.
FOOTNOTES:
INTRODUCTION.
Very little is known concerning the life of Tacitus, the historian, except that which he tells us in his own writings and those incidents which are related of him by his contemporary, Pliny.
His full name was Caius Cornelius Tacitus. The date of his birth can only be arrived at by conjecture, and then only approximately. The younger Pliny speaks of him as prope modum aequales, about the same age. Pliny was born in 61.
By Tacitus
With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY. [1]
THE LIFE OF CNAEUS JULIUS AGRICOLA.
FOOTNOTES:
INTRODUCTION.
Very little is known concerning the life of Tacitus, the historian, except that which he tells us in his own writings and those incidents which are related of him by his contemporary, Pliny.
His full name was Caius Cornelius Tacitus. The date of his birth can only be arrived at by conjecture, and then only approximately. The younger Pliny speaks of him as prope modum aequales, about the same age. Pliny was born in 61. Tacitus, however, occupied the office of quaestor under Vespasian in 78 A. D. , at which time he must, therefore, have been at least twenty-five years of age. This would fix the date of his birth not later than 53 A. D. It is probable, therefore, that Tacitus was Pliny's senior by several years.
