Tacitus Cornelius Tacitus
historian · Rome · 56?–120?
A Roman senator and historian. He wrote coldly of the age of the emperors, and wrote the life of his father-in-law, who had been governor of Britain.
Posts
AD 98 · Written as the speech of the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus, facing the Roman army
To plunder, to slaughter, to rob, they call by the false name of empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.Agricola 30
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us