The Annals of TacitusThe Annals of Tacitus

The Annals of Tacitus Quote

“Augustus won over the soldiers with gifts, the populace with cheap corn, and all men with the sweets of repose, and so grew greater by degrees, while he concentrated in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, aggrandised by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous past.”

The Annals of TacitusThe Annals of Tacitus
~ The Annals of Tacitus

The Annals (Latin: Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68

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Mike, Norwalk

Nothing new, history just repeating itself.

E Archer, NYC

The oldest trick in the book of Imperialism...

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