Word: tacitus
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...chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power," declared Thomas Jefferson upon departing the presidency. At that point he could retreat to Monticello, read Plato in Greek, plan and plant his University of Virginia. "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides," he wrote to John Adams, "and I find myself much the happier...
...scale of events it recounted in a way no printed book could do." As Burrow suggests, this is just part of a broader shift in the way the past has come to be packaged. When Burrow was a boy, he learned Latin and translated the Roman historians Livy and Tacitus. Today, children still learn about, say, the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans under King Leonidas stood up to several thousand invading Persian troops, refusing to retreat and meeting certain death. But now their source is Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, the movie it inspired, or the video-game...
FOUAD SINIORA, Lebanese Prime Minister, decrying Israel's incursion into Lebanon by quoting 1st century Roman historian Tacitus. Speaking to Western diplomats, Siniora asked, "Are we children of a lesser...
...Temple, what role Jewish groups and Roman leaders may have played in his trial and death. Historians should assess these claims objectively, without any predispositions of religion. As Thomas Jefferson instructed his college-age nephew, “read the Bible, then, as you would read Livy or Tacitus...
...Rather Be? They make up less than 2% of foreign visitors to Germany, while Germans make up 25% of visitors to Italy, and spend some €8 billion there each year. Italians can't blame them for that; by and large, they still view Germany as the Roman historian Tacitus did in A.D. 99: "Who would leave ... Italy to visit Germany, with its unlovely scenery, its bitter climate, its general dreariness ... unless it were his home...