Sacred Texts Classics Buy this Book at Amazon.com The Works of Tacitus tr. by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb ANNALS HISTORY GERMANY AGRICOLA ... ORATORY An eandem Romanis in bello virtutem quam in pace lasciviam adesse creditis?
("Do you suppose that the Romans will be as brave in war as they are licentious in peace?")
Agricola 30:32 This is the complete set of Church and Brodribb translations of Tacitus; this etext includes parallel English and Latin text. Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (56?-117 CE), writer, orator, lawyer, and senator, was one of the greatest historians of antiquity. His Annals and Histories are a panorama of first century Rome, from Tiberius to Domitian. His prose style is in the first tier of Latin writers. Tacitus presents a vivid picture of the high-water point of the Roman empire, and does not gloss over the toxic corruption and brutality of the time. Little is known about the origins and biography of Tacitus. Although "Tacitus" means silent, ironically he was known for his oratory. He was probably born into an aristocratic family in what is now the south of France. He studied rhetoric in Rome as a young man, and married into the family of the general Agricola. Advancing in the social hierarchy, he entered the Senate at the close of the first century. We have five surviving works by Tacitus, with some notable large gaps in the two major texts ( | |
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