Tacitus Quotes
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Histories. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Macmillan and Co., 1873, p. 38.
You see this palace is now yours, and the city is in your power; what do you think ought to be done?
Their first act was to “elect” him Gonfalonier.
President John Adams, a Federalist, had a formal, European view of the Presidency. Mrs. Adams, unlike her predecessor, was heavily involved in partisan politics. Gallatin was one of the opposition leaders.
The only soldier ever so honored. He was then the Chief of Staff of the Army.
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.
