The Loeb Classical Library: Tacitus, Annals Books XIII-XVI

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The Loeb Classical Library: Tacitus, Annals Books XIII-XVITacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger

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deals the preparations for and execution of his second assault on Britain in 54 BC

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