Tacitus definition
(person) A.d. 55?-120?; Rom. historian.
proper name
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This defeat is coupled by Tacitus with the disaster of Varus, but it was disgraceful rather than dangerous.
Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.