Tacitus Quotes


… conspicuous by his absence.


Context

Tacitus seems to be the first to use the phrase in a political sense to describe the absence at an important meeting or event at which he would normally have attended.


Citations

Cornelius Tacitus, c. 55-c. 117, Roman Historian, Annals

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Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.