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Tacitus
Roman historian and senator (c. 56 – c. 120) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Tacitus (disambiguation).
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving parts of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—report about the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.