Tacitus

(tasə təs)

Tacitus, (Publius Cornelius) 55?-120?; Rom. historian

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Roman public official and historian whose two greatest works, Histories and Annals, concern the period from the death of Augustus (A.D. 14) to the death of Domitian (96).

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