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born ad 56 died c. 120
![Tacitus, statue at the Parliament building in Vienna.
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Roman orator and public official, probably the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language. Among his works are the Germania, describing the Germanic tribes, the Historiae (Histories), concerning the Roman Empire from ad 69 to 96, and the later Annals, dealing with the empire in the period from ad 14 to 68.
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(55?-120?). Little is known of the great Roman historian Tacitus. He was educated to be an orator and became a senator and a consul. Agricola, a Roman general and governor of Britain, was his father-in-law. Pliny the Younger was his good friend and admirer.
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![Tacitus, statue at the Parliament building in Vienna.
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