The annals of Tacitus

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Introduction CONTENTS I. Life and writings of Tacitus II. Tacitus as a literary artist III. 'Tiberius the Tyrant' IV. Gerniauicus and his family V. Significance of the title Princeps VI. The Senate under the early empire VII. The Provinces under Tiberius . VIII. Maiestas Text Notes Appendix on Various Readings . Index : I. Proper names .... II. Latin words .... III. Grammar ..... PAGES vi-x x-xiv xv-xvii xviii-xix xix-xxi xxi-xxiii xxiii-xxv xxv-xxvii 1-54 55-136 137-144 145-146 146-150 150-152
INTRODUCTION I. LIFE AND WRITINGS OF TACITUS Cornelivis Tacitus perhaps belonged to an equestrian family of Interamna in Umbria. He was bora _altQut j)4 A.n . His praenomen is uncertain ; possibly it was Publius. According to the elder Pliny, either his father or uncle admin_[stered the revenues of 'Relgio. GaiiJ The Dialoqus de oratoribn. s. generally ascribed to Tacitus. was TO'i'bably writt.p.n in tbe early years of the reign of Domitiai;^ i.e. ^\ a.d. or latei- ^ The dramatic date is 74-75 A.D., i.e. when Tacitus was about twenty, admodum iuuenis, as he describes himself. The treatise is a criticism The of the rhetorical curriculum of his boyhood . — of the decline of oratory nnd or the Frnpire . a n explanation interlo- cutors are Julius Secundus and other celebrated rhetoiicians. Marcus Aper champions the school of Seneca. According to Boissier^, MessaUa, the man of action and student combined, represents Tacitus himself. In 78 A.D. Tacitus married the daughter of Julius Agricola, already a prominent man at Rome, and consul in the previous year. Agi-icola left Rome to be propraetor of Britain, as successor to Frontinus. Tacitus wrote his life (or historical ei^logj) probably in 98a. d. Tacitus sums up his public life in these words :— ' I should acknowledge that my political career was inaugurated by 1 See Cambridge Companion to Roman Studies, § 1002. ^ Tacitus and other Roman Studies, p. 5.
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