Word: tacitus
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...Pacification" has become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the Romans meant much the same thing by the term Pax Romana. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace," protested an English nobleman quoted in Tacitus. Viet Nam brought us new words for the old realities: soldiers "wasted" the enemy, some "fragged" their own officers, bombers provided "close air support." Even the CIA contributed a verbal novelty: "termination with extreme prejudice...
...wreaked devastation that stirred memories of the punishment inflicted on European cities during World War II and recalled the fate of Jericho, the enemy city that the ancient Israelites had laid waste. One observer, studying the wreckage, cited the sardonic words of a soldier quoted by the Roman historian Tacitus: "They made a desert and called it peace...
...evening Jefferson read. "I can not live without books," he confessed. He preferred Greek and Latin classics in the original. He cherished his Homer, his Thucydides, his Tacitus, though he was too much of a pragmatist to abide Plato's "foggy mind...
...sooner or later, will conclude with President Eisenhower that "there is no alternative to peace." But peace cannot be our only goal. To seek it at any price would render us morally defenseless and place the world at the mercy of the most ruthless. Mankind must do more, as Tacitus said, than "make a desert [and] call it peace...
...cats. So many animals were rounded up that even then there were endangered species: the hippopotamus was made extinct in Nubia, the lion in Mesopotamia, the elephant in North Africa. Sport was the adult's amusement and the child's obsession. Rather like a querulous Harvard professor, Tacitus complained that few students of 1st century Rome "are to be found who talk of any other subjects in their homes, and whenever we enter a classroom, what else is the conversation of the youths?" Ancient witnesses to Rome's concern about modes of dress have a distinctly modern...