![]() ![]() ![]() We have read that the panegyrics pronounced by Arulenus Rusticus on Pætus Thrasea, and by Herennius Senecio on Priscus Helvidius, were made capital crimes, that not only their persons but their very books were objects of rage, and that the triumvirs were commissioned to burn in the forum those works of splendid genius. ![]() Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. The following is an adaptation from Complete Works of Tacitus. In this volume (as in his work on the Germanic nations), Tacitus contrasts the natural freedoms and love of liberty of the native Britons to the greed, brutality, and insatiable acquisitiveness of the empire. Tacitus himself never went to Britain some, at least, of his information was based on what Agricola told him. 98) of his father-in-law, the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola (AD 40 – 93) who led the Roman army into Britain. The text Agricola is Tacitus’ biographical history (written AD c. One of primary concerns of Tacitus in his various written works (including histories of the Roman Empire) was the growing power of the Emperor, the corruption of the élite and the concessions of the Senate in the expansion of the empire. ![]() Tacitus (c.55 CE – c.120 CE) was a Roman historian and senator who may have spent his early years in northeastern Gaul. ![]()
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