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Tacitus (Tacitus)

Tacitus wrote sharp history of the early Empire, including the Annals and the Histories. He is harder, and darker in tone, than Livy.

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He belongs with the emperors, not with the kings of early Rome.

Latin words that go with this card: imperator, liber.

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