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... Tacitus and Plutarch have given us in their own words the scope and object of their respective works . Tacitus , after premising that his period begins with the consulship of Galba and Vinius , goes on to say ( i . 4 ) , " Ceterum ...
... Tacitus and Plutarch have given us in their own words the scope and object of their respective works . Tacitus , after premising that his period begins with the consulship of Galba and Vinius , goes on to say ( i . 4 ) , " Ceterum ...
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... Tacitus is a wider and more complete one than that of Plutarch . And this is in fact the case . We have nothing in Plutarch answering to the general view which Tacitus takes of the state of the various provinces of the empire ( i . 4-11 ) ...
... Tacitus is a wider and more complete one than that of Plutarch . And this is in fact the case . We have nothing in Plutarch answering to the general view which Tacitus takes of the state of the various provinces of the empire ( i . 4-11 ) ...
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... Tacitus ( ii . 12-16 ) . With these excep- tions however , and we should have been glad if Tacitus had made them more numerous by paying still greater attention to the non - Italian part of his subject , the two narratives take a ...
... Tacitus ( ii . 12-16 ) . With these excep- tions however , and we should have been glad if Tacitus had made them more numerous by paying still greater attention to the non - Italian part of his subject , the two narratives take a ...
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... Tacitus of the first fifteen chapters of Plutarch's Galla is naturally not very close , although Tacitus , partly in his resume of the state of the empire ( i . 4- 11 ) , partly in the speech of Otho ( i . 37 , 38 ) , and in other ...
... Tacitus of the first fifteen chapters of Plutarch's Galla is naturally not very close , although Tacitus , partly in his resume of the state of the empire ( i . 4- 11 ) , partly in the speech of Otho ( i . 37 , 38 ) , and in other ...
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... Tacitus , i . 48 ( see notes ad loc . where the passage of Tacitus is quoted in extenso ) . Plutarch however gives the story where the influence of Vinius is first alluded to , Tacitus on the occasion of his death . The attempted ...
... Tacitus , i . 48 ( see notes ad loc . where the passage of Tacitus is quoted in extenso ) . Plutarch however gives the story where the influence of Vinius is first alluded to , Tacitus on the occasion of his death . The attempted ...
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