Tacitus Quotes
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Annals of Tacitus. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Macmillan and Co., 1876, p. 327.
Referring to the Chinese immigrants:
Harrison was a General at the time.
In George Washington’s administration, Jefferson was Secretary of State and the Capitol of the country was New York. Jefferson, never a lover of cities, found himself having to work every day in New York.
Writing about President George Washington:. Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was jailed under the Sedition Act for his writings against the government.
Explaining the chief cause of the rising divorce rate:
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.
