Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Tacitus

 

Tacitus (c. 56/57-117+)

“All that tyrannical conquerors, and imitators of their brutalities, achieve is their own disrepute and their victims’ renown.”

  • From The Annals of Imperial Rome (Book IV, Chapter 35), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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