Word: tacitus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made it clear that he was speaking only for himself and not for his foundation, summed up many of the criticisms of Kissinger's diplomacy. He accused the Secretary of State of mishandling relations with Japan and Europe. "As for Southeast Asia, we, like the Romans of Tacitus, seem to have made a desert and called it peace. Considering all this, maybe half the Nobel Peace Prize [which Kissinger shared with Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator] was about right." Hughes went on: "As long as Nixon continues in office, we can expect him to do what comes...
That passage by Josephus, a 1st century Jewish historian writing in Greek, was for centuries perhaps the most cited piece of non-Christian testimony to the life and works of Jesus. Tacitus and Pliny mentioned Jesus briefly, as did Josephus in another shorter passage in his Antiquities. But Josephus' ingenuous paragraph appeared to be everything that Christian apologists could ask from a supposedly unbiased source: virtual confirmation of the basic truths of their faith. The trouble was, scholars began to object during the Enlightenment, that such a passage could hardly have been written by a nonbeliever, and had almost...
...relic, really, of a classic blunder. Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa, noted Tacitus scornfully-"Britain was conquered and then thrown away." He blamed the Emperor Domitian, who in A.D. 84 suddenly ordered his brilliant field commander Agricola to return to Rome just when a wholly Roman Britain seemed within grasp of the legions. Thereafter, year by year, the troops that had pressed nearly to the top of Scotland fell back under guerrilla attacks from the Britons. At last, in A.D. 119, Rome decided to stem the retreat and make the best of things by building a wall...
...lecture structure has depended largely on adroit references to the incomparably wide range of literatures and artists of Borges' experience--from oriental philosophers to Homer, Tacitus, Pope, Mossetti, Gongora, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Baudelaire, Dante, Yeats (all of whom he seems to know intimately. He believes that since literature already contains all possible ideas, he can say anything by allusion to one of his predecessors...
...Communist China together again." What made him think so? "I had a visitor, a rather important visitor, from the Soviet Union during the last week," he explained cryptically, and the visitor told him so. Reaching for a description of the U.S. role in Viet Nam, Bobby misquoted Roman Historian Tacitus-and ludicrously mislabeled him "one of their generals"-as saying, "We made a desert and we called it peace." Fulbright joined the debate, warned darkly that "this, I fear, is one of the last times that anybody will have courage to say anything else about...