Emperor Tiberius (recorded by Tacitus)

Emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37)

“I was sent into Germany nine times by the divine Augustus, and I achieved less by force than by diplomacy.”

  • A quote attributed to Tiberius in The Annals of Imperial Rome (II.26), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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