The Annals of Tacitus, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 The Annals of Tacitus quotesThe Annals of Tacitus QuotesThe Annals of Tacitus 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 Tacitus Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print